STATE OF NEW YORK
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8906
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to exempting contractors
employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notifica-
tion fees for demolitions
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 employed by a municipality to engage in such asbestos
23 projects, shall be accompanied by a project notification fee as follows:
24 Project Size/Linear Feet Fee
25 260-429 $200
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05422-01-3
A. 8906 2
1 430-824 400
2 825-1649 1,000
3 1650 or more 2,000
4 Project Size/Square Feet Fee
5 160-259 $200
6 260-499 400
7 500-999 1,000
8 1000 or more 2,000
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
