Establishes an independent state monitorship to oversee containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with the Northrop Grumman Bethpage Facility and Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of Bethpage within the town of Oyster Bay and compliance by Northrop Grumman and any other parties responsible for such containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup with any operative consent decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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720
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 the
Bethpage community park cleanup independent state monitorship
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 15-0518 to read as follows:
3 § 15-0518. Bethpage community park cleanup independent state monitor-
4 ship.
5 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an independent
6 state monitorship shall be established to oversee the containment, reme-
7 diation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with
8 the Northrop Grumman Bethpage Facility and Naval Weapons Industrial
9 Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of Bethpage within the town of Oyster
10 Bay and compliance by Northrop Grumman and any other parties responsible
11 for such containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup with any oper-
12 ative consent decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements.
13 The independent state monitorship shall consist of the county executive
14 of Nassau county or their designee; the town supervisor of the town of
15 Oyster Bay or their designee; members of the assembly whose districts
16 represent the town of Oyster Bay; members of the senate whose districts
17 represent the town of Oyster Bay; and the commissioner or their desig-
18 nee. Upon the issuance of relevant findings by the independent state
19 monitorship demonstrating noncompliance with any operative consent
20 decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements by Northrop Grum-
21 man or the federal government, the office of the attorney general shall
22 pursue affirmative litigation remedies resulting in actual remediation
23 and appropriate damages. The independent state monitorship shall report
24 its findings to the governor; the attorney general; the temporary presi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 dent of the senate; the speaker of the assembly; the minority leader of
2 the senate; and the minority leader of the assembly within one hundred
3 eighty days of its first meeting.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
