Directs the department of environmental conservation to undertake a review of the regulations governing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest scientific information.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5441
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
directing the department of environmental conservation to undertake a
review of the regulations governing the permitting of landfills and
transfer stations to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest
scientific information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 27-0703 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. The department shall undertake a review of the regulations govern-
4 ing the permitting of landfills and transfer stations, including siting
5 and expansion, to ensure that such regulations integrate the latest
6 scientific information regarding the impacts of such facilities on
7 vulnerable populations such as children and seniors, disadvantaged
8 communities, water, and the environment. On or before March thirty-
9 first, two thousand twenty-seven, the department of environmental
10 conservation shall post a report containing the findings from such
11 review on its website.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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