Assembly Bill A10653

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Exempts certain inland lakes from wetlands designations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A10653 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9799
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §24-0301, En Con L

2023-A10653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts inland lakes which are navigable waterways and have an area of 150 acres or more from wetlands designations, not including great lakes.

2023-A10653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10653
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Goodell) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   exempting certain inland lakes from wetlands designations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 24-0301 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9.  INLAND  LAKES WHICH ARE NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS AND WHICH HAVE AN AREA
 OF ONE HUNDRED FIFTY ACRES OR MORE SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM DESIGNATION AS A
 FRESHWATER WETLAND, WHENEVER THE COMMISSIONER IS DELINEATING  BOUNDARIES
 OF  FRESHWATER WETLANDS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION. FOR
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "INLAND LAKE" SHALL NOT  INCLUDE  ANY  OF  THE
 GREAT LAKES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15733-03-4

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