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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8378--C
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 18, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater
          wetlands
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 24-0513 to read as follows:
     3  § 24-0513. Local freshwater wetlands pesticide prohibition.
     4    A  local  government  that  has  implemented  a  freshwater   wetlands
     5  protection  law  or ordinance in accordance with section 24-0501 of this
     6  title may adopt a local law or ordinance to prohibit the application  of
     7  pesticides  to  wetlands  it regulates; provided, however, that any such
     8  law or ordinance shall  not  prohibit  pesticide  applications  for  the
     9  control of invasive species identified pursuant to title 17 of article 9
    10  of  this chapter, pests of significant public health importance, noxious
    11  weeds designated by the department as injurious to ecosystem health,  or
    12  for  the  protection of critical native plant species.  Any local law or
    13  ordinance adopted pursuant to this section  shall  take  effect  on  the
    14  first day of January after it shall have been adopted.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14382-10-2