STATE OF NEW YORK
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4162
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
protection of certain streams
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 15-0501 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 1979, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. For the purposes of this section, stream shall mean that portion of
5 any fresh surface watercourse, except lakes or ponds having a surface
6 area greater than ten acres at mean low water level, for which the
7 department has adopted or may hereafter adopt pursuant to section
8 17-030l, any of the following classifications or standards:
9 AA and AA (T),
10 A and A (T),
11 B and B (T),
12 C and C (T)
13 Small ponds or lakes with a surface area at mean low water level of
14 ten acres or less, located in the course of a stream, shall be consid-
15 ered a part of the stream and subject to regulation under this section.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03868-01-1
