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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S1007
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cities Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S1007 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Cities
- Law Section:
- General Municipal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §120-aa, Gen Muni L; amd §27-0107, En Con L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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S2563
2009-S1007 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Permits different standards to be employed for department of environmental conservation approval of solid waste management plans of cities of 1 million or more population submitted to it; ensures that municipalities with a population of one million or more have the flexibility to determine the most efficient method of implementing local recycling programs.
2009-S1007 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1007 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the general municipal law and the environmental conservation law, in relation to the solid waste management plan in cities with a population of one million or more SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : This bill amends § 27-0107 of the Environmental Conservation Law and § 120-aa of the General Municipal Law to insure that municipalities with a population of one million or more have the flexibility to determine the most efficient method of implementing local recycling programs. JUSTIFICATION : The 1988 Solid Waste Management Act amended § 120-aa of the General Municipal Law to require municipalities to adopt by September 1, 2002, a local source separation law for recyclable, reusable or other separable components of the solid waste stream for which economic markets for alternate uses exist. In § 27-0106(2) of the Environmental Conservation Law, the Legislature clearly indicated that localities are to have primary responsibility for implementing waste reduction and recycling programs. In response to the 1988 Act's requirement that municipalities adopt recycling laws by September 1, 1992, the New York City Council, in
2009-S1007 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1007 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 22, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the environmental conser- vation law, in relation to the solid waste management plan in cities with a population of one million or more THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 120-aa of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows: a. Pursuant to the authority of this section, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 27-0107 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW, no later than September first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, a muni- cipality shall adopt such a local law or ordinance to require that solid waste which has been left for collection or which is delivered by the generator of such waste to a solid waste management facility, shall be separated into recyclable, [reuseable] REUSABLE or other components for which economic markets for alternate uses exist. For purposes of this section, the term "economic markets" refers to instances in which the full avoided costs of proper collection, transportation and disposal of source separated materials are equal to or greater than the cost of collection, transportation and sale of said material less the amount received from the sale of said material. S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 27-0107 of the environmental conserva- tion law is renumbered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows: 2. THE PLAN, OR ANY MODIFICATION THEREOF, SUBMITTED BY A PLANNING UNIT COMPRISED OF A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR SUCH PLANNING UNIT IF THE DEPARTMENT FINDS IN APPROVING THE PLAN OR MODIFICATION THEREOF THAT THE PLAN, OR THE PLAN AS MODIFIED, CONTAINS THE ELEMENTS SET FORTH IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06667-01-9
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