STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 3943 A. 5439
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2013
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
Conservation
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, ABINANTI -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to a
registry of preliminary sites under investigation for hazardous waste
disposal on the department of environmental conservation's website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 27-1301 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
3 8. "Area of concern" means any location where the department is inves-
4 tigating a threat to the environment related to hazardous waste that was
5 known or has been discharged, generated, manufactured, refined, trans-
6 ported, stored, handled, treated or disposed, or where hazardous waste
7 may have migrated.
8 § 2. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
9 section 27-1325 to read as follows:
10 § 27-1325. Areas of concern.
11 The department shall maintain and make available for public inspection
12 at each of its regional offices and regional sub-offices, and on its
13 website, a list of all areas of concern. In addition, for each area of
14 concern the registry shall include information regarding the basis for
15 inclusion of each site.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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