STATE OF NEW YORK
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1767
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to exempting contractors from
payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions
performed within the city of Buffalo
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 904 of the labor law, as amended
2 by section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 2. Any contractor engaged in an asbestos project involving more than
5 two hundred sixty linear feet or more than one hundred sixty square feet
6 of asbestos or asbestos materials shall notify both the United States
7 Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Air and Hazardous Material
8 Division and the commissioner in writing ten days prior to the commence-
9 ment of work on the project or, if emergency conditions make it impossi-
10 ble to provide ten days prior notice, as soon as practicable after iden-
11 tification of the project. The notice to the commissioner shall include
12 the following information: the name, address and asbestos handling
13 license number of the contractor working on the project; the address and
14 description of the building or area, including size, age and prior use
15 of the building or area; the amount of friable asbestos material present
16 in square feet and/or linear feet, if applicable; room designation
17 numbers or other local information where such asbestos material is found
18 unless such material is found throughout the entire structure; the sche-
19 duled starting and completion dates for removal; the procedures and
20 equipment, including ventilating systems that will be employed; any
21 additional information which the commissioner may require; and, except
22 for contractors engaged in such asbestos projects within the city limits
23 of the city of Buffalo, shall be accompanied by a project notification
24 fee as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06069-01-7
A. 1767 2
1 Project Size/Linear Feet Fee
2 260-429 $200
3 430-824 400
4 825-1649 1,000
5 1650 or more 2,000
6 Project Size/Square Feet Fee
7 160-259 $200
8 260-499 400
9 500-999 1,000
10 1000 or more 2,000
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
