NY State Senate Bill 2025-S1126

Senate Bill S1126

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study of ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay

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2025-S1126 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S8547

2025-S1126 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study of ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay; imposes a five-year moratorium on placing sediment or fill in the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay.

2025-S1126 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S1126

SPONSOR: PERSAUD
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act directing the department of environmental conservation to conduct
a study on ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to have the Department of Environmental
Conservation conduct a full study of Jamaica Bay to determine ecological
restoration needs in Jamaica Bay, while also providing a 5-year morato-
rium on filling of the borrow pits.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section la of the bill outlines the study that the Department of Envi-
ronmental Conservation will conduct to determine ecological restoration
needs in Jamaica Bay.

Section 2b of the bill states that the Department of Environmental

Conservation shall report their finding to the governor, the temporary
president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly no later than
March 30, 2030.

Section 1c of the bill states that there shall be a moratorium of any
placement of any type of sediment or fill into the borrow pits in Jamai-
ca Bay for a period of five years commencing on the effective date of
this act, or until the study is completed and published, whichever is
later

Section 2 of the bill sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Department of Environmental. Conservation has not conducted a thor-
ough study of Jamaica Bay in at least 20 years. This bill would require
an updated study of Jamaica Bay to provide a description of the bathyme-
try of target areas of Jamaica Bay and a map of the borrow pits; the
ecological service quality of the borrow pits over multiple weather
seasons at multiple depths, including in-depth analysis of the popu-
lations of fin fish species that utilize such areas during different
seasons; the geotechnical conditions of all pit bottoms; the signif-
icance of the borrow pits regarding the absorption of heat during summer
months when adjacent shallow areas experience ulva sulfide conditions;
and any other policy recommendations regarding the ecological restora-
tion of Jamaica Bay.

There shall be a moratorium of any placement of any type of sediment or
fill into the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay for a period of five years
commencing on the effective date of this act, or until the study is
completed and published, whichever is later.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S8547 - Vetoed Memo.42

2023: S.6596 - Vetoed Memo.43
2022: S.8816-A (Addabbo) - Vetoed Memo.99

2021: S.2205 (Addabbo) - Vetoed Memo.67

2020: S.7295 (Addabbo) - Vetoed Memo.68

 
FISCAL IMPACT ON THE STATE:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Shall take effect immediately.

2025-S1126 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1126
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PERSAUD,  COONEY,  WEBB -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
   mental Conservation
 
 AN ACT directing the department of environmental conservation to conduct
   a study on ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  (a)  The  department  of environmental conservation shall
 conduct a beneficial use study to determine ecological restoration needs
 in Jamaica Bay. Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
   (i) a description of the bathymetry of target areas of Jamaica Bay and
 a map of the borrow pits;
   (ii) the ecological service quality of the borrow pits  over  multiple
 weather  seasons  at multiple depths, including in-depth analysis of the
 populations of fin fish species that utilize such areas during different
 seasons;
   (iii) the geotechnical conditions of all pit bottoms;
   (iv) the significance of the borrow pits regarding the  absorption  of
 heat  during  summer  months when adjacent shallow areas experience ulva
 sulfide conditions; and
   (v) any other policy recommendations regarding the ecological restora-
 tion of Jamaica Bay.
   (b) The department of environmental conservation shall:
   (i) issue a report on the findings of such study to the governor,  the
 temporary  president  of  the  senate and the speaker of the assembly no
 later than March 30, 2030; and
   (ii) publish such report on the department of environmental  conserva-
 tion's website.
   (c)  There shall be a moratorium of any placement of any type of sedi-
 ment or fill into the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay for a  period  of  five
 years  commencing  on the effective date of this act, or until the study
 is completed and published, whichever is later.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03536-01-5

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Roxanne J. Persaud