Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation to include species designated by the Secretary of the Interior as endangered or threatened to the endangered and threatened species list.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8750
IN SENATE
July 14, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
removal of species from the endangered and threatened species list
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0535 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 706 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. For the purposes of this section, "endangered species" shall mean
5 those species of fish, shellfish, crustacea and wildlife designated by
6 the department, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State, as
7 seriously threatened with extinction, "threatened species" shall mean
8 those species of fish and wildlife designated by the department, by
9 regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are likely to become
10 endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a
11 significant portion of their range, and "species of special concern"
12 shall mean those species of fish and wildlife designated by the depart-
13 ment, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are found
14 by the department to be at risk of becoming threatened in New York. Such
15 regulation shall include, but not be limited to, endangered and threat-
16 ened species as so designated by the Secretary of the Interior,
17 provided, however, that such regulation shall take effect sixty days
18 after it has been filed with the Secretary of State, and provided,
19 further, that [the] any endangered or threatened species as so desig-
20 nated by the Secretary of the Interior shall be subject to the
21 restrictions of this section, regardless of the removal of such desig-
22 nation as an endangered or threatened species by the Secretary of the
23 Interior. The commissioner may exclude any such species as the commis-
24 sioner may determine after investigation to be no longer endangered or
25 threatened from the restrictions of this section.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08488-06-0
