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                                   3682
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT directing  the  departments  of  environmental  conservation  and
   health  to establish environmental standards for ambient lead and lead
   contamination  in  soils;  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. Legislative findings. The legislature  finds  and  declares
 that  there  is  a  present  need  to  establish New York standards with
 respect to levels of ambient lead and levels of  lead  contamination  in
 soils  and  on  floors  and window sills. The legislature finds that the
 current regulatory standards  are  inadequate  to  protect  the  general
 public  and  particularly  small  children  from  the harmful effects of
 ingesting or inhaling lead dust, often resulting from  lead  paint,  and
 coming  into  contact  with  lead  on  exposed surfaces. The legislature
 declares that it shall be the  responsibility  of  the  commissioner  of
 environmental  conservation,  in  consultation  with the commissioner of
 health, to adopt standards for ambient lead and  lead  contamination  of
 soil  and windows and floors, in a manner that would be fully protective
 of children's health, and in accordance with the procedures set forth in
 the environmental conservation law.
   § 2. a. No later than March 31, 2026, the departments of environmental
 conservation and health shall propose  new  standards,  and  update  any
 existing  standards  as  appropriate,  for  dust lead hazards, soil-lead
 hazards and ambient air quality standards for the level of lead in vari-
 ous media that will result in blood lead levels that are no higher  than
 a target that is fully protective of human health and which at a minimum
 include  consideration  of  recommendations from the centers for disease
 control.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   b. No later than June 1, 2026, such departments shall issue  a  report
 to the legislature describing the status of such reviews, adoptions, and
 revisions and expected health improvements resulting therefrom.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1,  2026.
 Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
 tive  date  are  authorized  to  be made and completed on or before such
 date.