STATE OF NEW YORK
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4169
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. CROUCH, GOODELL, RIVERA, THIELE, TITONE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
classification of certain dredged sediment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 15 of the environmental conservation law is amended
2 by adding a new title 35 to read as follows:
3 TITLE 35
4 DREDGED SEDIMENT; CLASSIFICATION
5 Section 15-3501. Dredged sediment; classification.
6 § 15-3501. Dredged sediment; classification.
7 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, material dredged or exca-
8 vated from the waters of the state in accordance with a permit issued
9 pursuant to this article or article twenty-four, twenty-five or thirty-
10 four of this chapter which has been cleaned or processed pursuant to the
11 provisions of this chapter shall be classified for purposes of this
12 chapter as a beneficial use material and shall not be classified as
13 solid waste.
14 § 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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