Requires the commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations requiring the department to install or cause to be installed at the outlet of any point source that empties into the waters of the state a trash capture net for purposes of collecting garbage, refuse, and other debris; defines "trash capture net" to mean a commercial grade, reusable, open-meshed material designed to capture pollutants as small as five millimeters in diameter.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5238
SPONSOR: Williams TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
installation of trash capture nets
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of.this bill is to establish installation of trash capture
nets over storm drains and their like so as to limit refuse, pollutants
and garbage into our State's waters
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new section
17-0832 to read as follows: § 17-0832 requiring the additional require-
ment of implementing trash capture nets commercial grade, reusable,
open-meshed material as small as five millimeters in diameter designed
to capture pollutants and placed over catch basins, storm drains and or
any source emptying into a body of water, water way of the State so as
to capture and to retain garbage, refuse and any other item or debris.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is designed to promulgate the installation of netting a "trash
capture net" of a commercial grade, reusable, open-meshed material
designed to capture pollutants as small as five millimeters in diameter.
The "trash Capture Net" shall be placed over any outlet, catch basin,
storm drain and or any source emptying into a body of water, water way
of the State to capture and to retain garbage, refuse and any other item
or debris while allowing water to pass through with the debris removed
allowing for cleaner waters, free of refuse and pollutant, and other
debris. This simple and inexpensive measure will reduce the pollution of
our State's waters without increase cost to do so. It is a cost effec-
tive and
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-2020 A7726
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it
shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment
and/or repeal of any rule or.regulation necessary for the. implementa-
tion of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5238
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
installation of trash capture nets
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 17-0832 to read as follows:
3 § 17-0832. Additional requirement; trash capture nets.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation, the
5 commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring the
6 department to install or cause to be installed at the outlet of any
7 point source that empties into any waters of the state a trash capture
8 net for purposes of collecting garbage, refuse, and other debris. For
9 purposes of this section, a "trash capture net" shall mean a commercial
10 grade, reusable, open-meshed material designed to capture pollutants as
11 small as five millimeters in diameter.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend-
14 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
15 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
16 completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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