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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 13, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. D. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the state law, in
   relation to the re-designation of Squaw Island in  Ontario  county  as
   Skenoh Island

   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  45-0117  of  the
 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 249 of the laws of
 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   a. [Squaw] SKENOH Island in the town of Canandaigua, county of Ontario
 more  fully  described in chapter three hundred fifty-two of the laws of
 nineteen hundred seventy-five.
   § 2. Section 5 of the state law is amended to read as follows:
   § 5. Canada boundary line.  The boundary line between the state of New
 York and Canada is as follows:
   Commencing at the intersection of  the  parallel  of  the  forty-fifth
 degree  of  north latitude with the middle of the deepest channel of the
 Richelieu river and running  thence  westerly  along  said  parallel  of
 forty-five  degrees  north  latitude  as originally run by Valentine and
 Collins, 1771-1774, to a point on the south shore of  the  St.  Lawrence
 river  (but  shown by the United States survey of boundary line in 1845,
 under treaty of Washington, 1842, on sheet maps XXVI to XXX to vary from
 true parallel of forty-five degrees, as follows: monument 645,  on  bank
 of Richelieu river, is .822 miles north of parallel of 45° and .02 miles
 west  from  river;  thence westerly 14.68 miles to monument 673, at .336
 miles north; thence westerly 6.56 miles to monument 685, at  .353  miles
 north;  thence westerly 9.20 miles to monument 703, at .004 miles south;
 thence westerly 7.43 miles to monument 717, at .429 miles south;  thence
 westerly  10.02  miles  to  monument  737,  at  .475 miles south; thence
 westerly 6.34 miles to monument 749, at .140 miles south; thence wester-
 ly 5.88 miles to monument 762, on true parallel of 45°; thence  westerly
 4.20  miles to monument 774, at .030 miles north on bank of St. Lawrence
 river S. 74° 45' W. 1840 yards distant from  the  stone  church  in  the
 
              

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 Indian  village of St. Regis, this line being recognized as the boundary
 line by article one of said treaty of Washington). Thence  beginning  at
 aforesaid  point  on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river, marked
 by  monument 774, under the treaty of Washington, 1842, and in 1817 by a
 stone monument erected by Andrew Ellicott (the location of  which  point
 is described above), and running north 35° 45' west into the river, on a
 line at right angles with the southern shore, to a point 100 yards south
 of  the opposite island, called Cornwall island; thence turning westerly
 and passing around the southern and western side of said island  keeping
 100 yards distant therefrom, and following the curvatures of its shores,
 to  a  point  opposite  to the northwest corner or angle of said island;
 thence to and along the middle of the main river until it approaches the
 eastern extremity of Barnhart's island; thence northerly along the chan-
 nel which divides the last mentioned island from the Canada shore, keep-
 ing 100 yards distant from  the  island,  until  it  approaches  Sheik's
 island;  thence  along the middle of the strait which divides Barnhart's
 and Sheik's islands to the channel called the Long  Sault,  which  sepa-
 rates  the  two last mentioned islands from the lower Long Sault island;
 thence westerly (crossing the center  of  the  last  mentioned  channel)
 until  it  approaches  within  100 yards of the north shore of the Lower
 Sault island; thence up the north branch of the  river  keeping  to  the
 north of and near the Lower Sault island, and also north of and near the
 Upper  Sault,  sometimes  called  Baxter's  island, and south of the two
 small islands marked on the map A and B, to the western extremity of the
 Upper Sault or Baxter's island; thence passing between the  two  islands
 called  the  Cats,  to  the  middle of the river above; thence along the
 middle of the river, keeping to the north of the small islands marked  C
 and  D,  and  north  also of Chrystler's island, and of the small island
 next above it, marked E, until it  approaches  the  northeast  angle  of
 Goose  Neck  island;  thence  along  the  passage which divides the last
 mentioned island from the Canada  shore,  keeping  100  yards  from  the
 island  to  the  upper end of the same; thence south of and near the two
 small islands called the Nut islands;  thence  north  of  and  near  the
 island marked F, and also of the island called Dry or Smuggler's island;
 thence  passing  between  the islands marked G and H to the north of the
 island called Isle au Rapid Platt; thence along the north  side  of  the
 last  mentioned  island,  keeping 100 yards from the shore, to the upper
 end thereof; thence along the middle of the river, keeping to the  south
 of  and  near  the  islands called Coussin (or Tussin) and Presque isle;
 thence up the river, keeping north of and near the several Gallop  Isles
 numbered on the map, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, and also of Tick,
 Tibbits,  and  Chimney  islands,  and south of and near the Gallop isles
 numbered 11, 12 and 13, and also of Duck, Drummond, and  Sheep  islands;
 thence  along  the  middle of the river, passing north of island No. 14,
 south of 15 and 16, north of 17, south of 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
 and 28, and north of 26 and 27; thence along the middle  of  the  river,
 north  of  Gull island and of the islands Nos. 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, Bluff
 island, and Nos. 39, 44 and 45, and to the south of  Nos.  30,  31,  36,
 Grenadier  island,  and Nos. 27, 28, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47 and 48 until
 it approaches the east end of Wells island, thence to the north of Wells
 island, and along the strait which divides it from Rowe's island,  keep-
 ing  to  the  north of the small islands Nos. 51, 52, 54, 58, 59 and 61,
 and to the south of the small islands numbered and marked  49,  50,  53,
 55, 57, 60, and X, until it approaches the northeast point of Grindstone
 island;  thence  to  the  north  of Grindstone island and keeping to the
 north also of the small islands Nos. 63, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75,
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 76, 77 and 78, and to the south of Nos. 62, 64, 66, 69 and 71, until  it
 approaches  the  southern point of Hickory island; thence passing to the
 south of Hickory island and of the two  small  islands  lying  near  its
 southern  extremity  numbered 79 and 80; thence to the south of Grand or
 Long island, keeping near its southern shore, and passing to  the  north
 of  Carlton island, until it arrives opposite to the southwestern point,
 of said Grand island, in Lake Ontario; thence, passing to the  north  of
 Grenadier,  Fox,  Stony, and the Gallop islands, in Lake Ontario, and to
 the south of and near the islands called the Ducks, to the middle of the
 said lake, thence westerly along the middle of  said  lake  to  a  point
 opposite  the mouth of the Niagara river, thence to and up the middle of
 the said river to the Great Falls; thence up the Falls through the point
 of the Horse Shoe, keeping to the west of Irish or Goat island,  and  of
 the  group  of small islands at its head, and following the bends of the
 river so as to enter the strait between Navy and Grand  islands;  thence
 along  the  middle  of said strait to the head of Navy island; thence to
 the west and south of and near to Grand and Beaver islands, and  to  the
 west of Strawberry, [Squaw] UNITY, and Bird islands to Lake Erie; thence
 southerly  and  westerly along the middle of Lake Erie in a direction to
 enter the passage immediately south of Middle island, being one  of  the
 easternmost  of  the  group of islands lying in the western part of said
 lake (according to the decision of the  commissioners  under  the  sixth
 article  of the treaty of Ghent, 1814, done at Utica, state of New York,
 June 18, 1822) to intersection with  meridian  line  of  Cession,  drawn
 through  the  most  westerly  bent or inclination of Lake Ontario, under
 deed of cession to the United States,  executed  March  1,  1781,  under
 chapter  thirty-eight  of  the  third session of the legislature of this
 state in 1780, which meridian line was surveyed and  marked  with  monu-
 ments  by Andrew Ellicott in 1790, as duly appointed under resolution of
 Congress, August 19, 1789, and resurveyed in 1881  to  1885,  and  final
 report  made  December  1,  1885,  by  H.  W. Clarke, civil engineer and
 surveyor, on the part of the state of New York.
   § 3. Subdivision 7 of section 21 of the state law, as amended by chap-
 ter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
   7. Land in the city of Buffalo. Such lands  now  owned  by  the  state
 under  the  waters  of Niagara river or in the vicinity of said river in
 the city of Buffalo, including such lands as  are  now  used  for  canal
 purposes  in  the  city of Buffalo and as may be deemed abandoned by the
 department of transportation, as may be required by the United States in
 the construction of a ship canal from Lake Erie to the foot  of  [Squaw]
 UNITY island in the city of Buffalo.
   §  4.  Subdivision  140 of section 121 of the state law, as amended by
 chapter 20 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   140. One hundred fortieth district. In the county of Erie, the town of
 Tonawanda and the portion of the city of Buffalo beginning at the inter-
 section of the Tonawanda/Buffalo  town/city  line  at  Delaware  Avenue,
 thence  southerly  along  said  avenue  to Villa Avenue, thence easterly
 along said avenue to Markham Place, thence southerly along said place to
 Sanders Road, thence westerly along said road to Delaware Avenue, thence
 southerly along said avenue to Hertel Avenue, thence westerly along said
 avenue to Page Street, thence northerly  along  said  street  to  Holmes
 Street,  thence  westerly  along said street to a line extended easterly
 from Jasper Parish Drive, thence westerly along said  extended  line  to
 Jasper  Parish Drive, thence westerly along said drive to Laforce Place,
 thence southerly along said place to Hertel Avenue, thence southwesterly
 along said avenue to Deer Street, thence northerly along said street  to
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 Gladstone  Avenue,  thence westerly along said avenue to Foundry Street,
 thence southerly along said street to Hertel Avenue, thence southwester-
 ly along said avenue to Penn Central Railroad Tracks, thence to a  point
 where  a  line  extending  northwesterly  from  Tonawanda Street, thence
 southeasterly along said line  to  Tonawanda  Street,  thence  southerly
 along  said  street to Scajaquada Creek, thence southwesterly along said
 creek to Interstate Highway I-190, thence northwesterly along said high-
 way to Erie-Lackawanna Railroad tracks, thence southwesterly along  said
 railroad to western shore of [Squaw] UNITY Island Park, thence northerly
 along  said  shore  to United States/Canada border, thence northwesterly
 along said border to Tonawanda/Buffalo town/city line,  thence  easterly
 along  said  line,  to  the Tonawanda/Buffalo town/city line at Delaware
 Ave, the point and place  of  beginning;  and  the  city  of  Tonawanda,
 furthermore, in the county of Niagara, that portion of the city of North
 Tonawanda,  bounded  by  a  line described as follows:  Beginning at the
 intersection  of  the  Penn  Central  Railroad   and   North   Tonawanda
 city/Wheatfield  town  line,  thence  southeasterly  along  said line to
 Erie/Niagara county line, thence  westerly  along  said  line  to  Grand
 Island  town/North Tonawanda city line, thence northerly along said line
 to a line extending easterly from the Tonawanda Island shoreline, thence
 westerly along said line to Tonawanda Island shoreline, thence  westerly
 along  said  shoreline  to a line extending westerly from Archer Street,
 thence easterly along said line to Archer Street, thence northerly along
 said street to Bridge Street,  thence  easterly  along  said  street  to
 Michigan  Avenue,  thence  northerly  along said avenue to Taylor Drive,
 thence easterly along said drive to Thompson Street, thence northwester-
 ly along said street to River Road, thence northeasterly along said road
 to Robinson Street, thence easterly along said street  to  Penn  Central
 Railroad, thence northerly along said railroad to Niagara Bridge, thence
 easterly along said bridge to Erie-Lackawanna Railroad, thence northerly
 along said railroad to a line extending westerly from Penn Central Rail-
 road,  thence  easterly along said line to Penn Central Railroad, thence
 northerly along said railroad  to  Fredericka  Street,  thence  easterly
 along  said  street  to  Erie-Lackawanna  Railroad, thence northwesterly
 along said railroad to Felton Street, thence  northeasterly  along  said
 street  to  Henry  Street,  thence  southeasterly  along  said street to
 Fredericka Street, thence northeasterly  along  said  street  to  Oliver
 Street, thence southeasterly along said street to Linwood Avenue, thence
 northeasterly  along  said  avenue to Payne Avenue, thence southeasterly
 along said avenue to Greenwood Circle, thence easterly along said circle
 to Payne Avenue, thence southerly along said  avenue  to  Meadow  Drive,
 thence  easterly along said drive to Bowen Drive, thence northerly along
 said drive to Bowen Drive West, thence northwesterly along said drive to
 Selkirk Drive, thence easterly along said drive to Doebler Drive, thence
 northeasterly along said drive to Wurlitzer Drive, thence easterly along
 said drive to Nash Road, thence southerly along  said  road  to  Pioneer
 Drive,  thence  easterly along said drive to Guy Drive, thence northerly
 along said drive to Wurlitzer Drive,  thence  southeasterly  along  said
 drive  to  Fairmont  Avenue, thence northeasterly along said avenue to a
 line  extending  southwesterly  from  Penn  Central   Railroad,   thence
 northeasterly  along  said  line to the Penn Central Railroad, thence to
 the intersection of  the  Penn  Central  Railroad  and  North  Tonawanda
 city/Wheatfield town line, the point and place of beginning.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.