STATE OF NEW YORK
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1773
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
storage of radioactive materials in proximity to school grounds
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 27-0111 to read as follows:
3 § 27-0111. Storage of radioactive materials in proximity to school
4 grounds.
5 1. Definitions.
6 a. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the
7 end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored
8 elsewhere.
9 b. "Radioactive material" shall have the same meaning as it does in
10 section four hundred eighty-one of the general business law.
11 c. "School grounds" means any building, structure, and surrounding
12 grounds within the legally defined boundaries, as determined by the
13 appropriate county clerk's office, of a public, private or parochial
14 pre-school, elementary school, or secondary school.
15 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the storage
16 of radioactive material shall not be permitted within one thousand five
17 hundred feet of any school grounds, except in those cases where the
18 legal storage of radioactive material is conducted in the ordinary
19 course of business by a professional practice, a public or private
20 hospital or outpatient healthcare facility, a public or private post-
21 secondary institution; or an entity with the primary function of
22 conducting medical or scientific research.
23 § 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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