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Assembly Bill A4691

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Implements a moratorium on mining within certain special groundwater protection areas

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2021-A4691 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5564
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation

2021-A4691 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements a moratorium on mining within certain special groundwater protection areas where either the department of environmental conservation or a county health department has issued a written determination to the owner or operator of the mine that operation of the mine has caused or is contributing to one or more exceedances of state or federal maximum contaminant level applicable to drinking water or groundwater resources.

2021-A4691 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4691
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT in relation to implementing a moratorium on mining within certain
   special  groundwater  protection  areas where either the department of
   environmental conservation or a county health department has issued  a
   written determination to the owner or operator of the mine that opera-
   tion  of  the mine has caused or is contributing to one or more excee-
   dances of state or federal maximum  contaminant  level  applicable  to
   drinking  water or groundwater resources; and providing for the repeal
   of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. No person shall operate a mine within a special groundwater
 protection area, designated pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 55-0113
 of  the  environmental conservation law, and permitted by the department
 of environmental conservation, where either the department  of  environ-
 mental  conservation  or a county health department has issued a written
 determination to the owner or operator of the mine that operation of the
 mine has caused or is contributing to one or more exceedances  of  state
 or  federal  maximum  contaminant  level applicable to drinking water or
 groundwater resources. Cessation of mining  operations  as  required  by
 this section shall commence within 24 hours of receipt by the mine owner
 or operator of such written determination.
   ยง  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed 3 years after such date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07201-01-1

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