Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and New York city transit authority to study and report on the aboveground transit infrastructure of the metropolitan transit authority.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7562--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority and the New
York city transit authority to study aboveground transit infrastruc-
ture
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority and the New York
2 city transit authority, in consultation with the department of environ-
3 mental conservation and the department of health, shall conduct a study
4 to examine and evaluate aboveground stations, elevated trestles, and
5 elevated subway and railway tracks owned or controlled by the metropol-
6 itan transportation authority, regarding, but not limited to the follow-
7 ing determinations:
8 (a) review past renovations to stations to determine the amount of
9 lead paint abatement;
10 (b) determine the degree to which the metropolitan transportation
11 authority complies with federal and state air quality laws and regu-
12 lations;
13 (c) establish recommendations to further lead paint abatement, enhance
14 air quality controls, and to ensure protection of public health and the
15 environment; and
16 (d) determine the fiscal impact of any aforementioned recommendations.
17 The metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city trans-
18 it authority, in consultation with the department of environmental
19 conservation and the department of health, shall limit such study to a
20 statistically significant subset of the aboveground stations, elevated
21 trestles, and elevated subway and railway tracks to be representative of
22 all aboveground transit infrastructure. Testing shall include all five
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 boroughs, low-income neighborhoods, and densely populated areas of the
2 city of New York.
3 § 2. On or before March 1, 2018, the chairman of the metropolitan
4 transportation authority and the chairman on the New York city transit
5 authority shall submit a written report to the governor, temporary pres-
6 ident of the senate, speaker of the assembly and mayor of the city of
7 New York, with the findings and recommendations of the study conducted
8 pursuant to section one of this act.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
