STATE OF NEW YORK
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2157
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including the Sawkill
Creek in Ulster county within the definition of "inland waterways" for
the purposes of waterfront revitalization
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 911 of the executive law, as sepa-
2 rately amended by chapters 43 and 255 of the laws of 2017, paragraph (a)
3 as separately amended by chapters 133, 135, 140, 153, 234, 265, 268, 485
4 and 499 of the laws of 2018, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 499 of
5 the laws of 2018, and paragraph (c) as separately amended by chapters
6 131, 140, 232 and 502 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
7 follows:
8 4. "Inland waterways" shall mean (a) the state's major inland lakes
9 consisting of lakes Baldwin, Ballston, Big Tupper, Black, Campfire,
10 Canadarago, Canandaigua, Carmel, Cazenovia, Cayuga, Champlain, Charles,
11 Chateaugay, Chautauqua, Chazy, Conesus, Cranberry, East Caroga, Dickie-
12 busch, Echo (in the county of Westchester), George, Glencoma, Great
13 Sacandaga, Honeoye, Indian, Katonah, Kentwood, Keuka, Kitchawan, Little
14 Wolf (in the county of Franklin), Lincolndale, Long, Lost (in the county
15 of Putnam), Meahagh, Mirror, MacGregor, Mahopac, Minerva, Mohegan,
16 Nimham, Neatahwanta, Northville, Oceola, Oneida, Onondaga, Oscaleta,
17 Ossi, Otisco, Otsego, Owasco, Palmer, Peach, Placid, Purdys, Putnam,
18 Raquette, Rippowam, Ronkonkoma, Round, Sacandaga, Saratoga, Schroon,
19 Secor, Seneca, Shenorock, Skaneateles, Silver (in the county of Wyom-
20 ing), Sagamore, Saranac, Seven Hills, Tibet, Tonetta, Teakettle Spout,
21 Truesdale, Waccabuc, West Caroga and Wixon, Simon (in the county of
22 Franklin) and the Fulton chain of lakes; (b) the state's major rivers
23 comprised of the Allegheny, Ausable, Battenkill, Black, Boquet, Bronx,
24 Canisteo, Chaumont (including Chaumont bay), Chemung, Chenango, Cohoc-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ton, Delaware, Deer, Genesee, Grasse, Great Chazy, Hoosic, Hudson north
2 of the federal dam at Troy, Indian, Little (in the Adirondack park),
3 Little Ausable, Little Salmon (including north and south branches), Mad,
4 Mettowee, Mohawk, Oswegatchie, Oswego, Pocantico, Racquette, Sacandaga,
5 Salmon, Saranac, Saw Mill, Schroon, Susquehanna, Tenmile, Tioga, Tiough-
6 nioga, Wallkill and Buffalo rivers, and the north and middle branches of
7 the Moose river; (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile
8 Creek located in Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinder-
9 hook Creek located in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rens-
10 selaer county, Basher Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, Cincinna-
11 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and lower branches), Fish
12 (including east and west branches), Gooseberry, Great Valley, Kennyetto,
13 Little Sandy, Onondaga, Peekskill Hollow, Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout,
14 Sandy, Schoharie, Shawangunk Kill, South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West
15 Kill, Scajaquada, Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Black Creek located in
16 Monroe county, Black Creek located in Genesee and Wyoming counties,
17 Ellicott Creek located in Erie county, Wynantskill, Claverack, Taghkan-
18 ic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek and Butternut Creek located in
19 Onondaga county, [and] Nanticoke and Sawkill (in Ulster county); (d) the
20 Barge Canal System as defined in section two of the canal law; and (e)
21 the adjacent shorelands to the extent that such inland waters and adja-
22 cent lands are strongly influenced by each other including, but not
23 limited to, islands, wetlands, beaches, dunes, barrier islands, cliffs,
24 bluffs and erosion prone areas.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
