Directs the department of environmental conservation to study alternative municipal uses for recycled glass; requires the department to submit a report containing its findings along with legislative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5619
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to direct the department of environmental conservation to study
alternative municipal uses for recycled glass
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The department of environmental conservation, in consulta-
2 tion with the department of transportation, shall conduct a study on
3 alternative municipal uses for recycled glass including, but not limited
4 to, the use of crushed glass in asphalt, concrete, drainage, roadway
5 subgrade, and for the purposes of beach nourishment.
6 § 2. The department of environmental conservation shall issue a report
7 containing the findings of the study to the temporary president of the
8 senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate environ-
9 mental conservation committee, and the chair of the assembly environ-
10 mental conservation committee no later than one year after the effective
11 date of this act and shall submit with this report such legislative
12 proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations. Such
13 report shall also be published on such department's website.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11138-01-9
