STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

3946

2023-2024 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

February 8, 2023 ___________

Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, STIRPE, DICKENS, GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, KELLES, THIELE, COLTON, EPSTEIN, JACOBSON, BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to requiring the disclosure of insurance information on permit applica- tions for the construction of pipelines upon any freshwater wetlands

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 24-0703 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 1979, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. Any person proposing to conduct or cause to be conducted a regu- 5 lated activity upon any freshwater wetland shall file an application for 6 a permit with the clerk of the local government having jurisdiction or 7 the department, as the case may be. Review of the application shall be 8 made by the local government or the commissioner, as the case may be, in 9 accordance with applicable law and such rules hereunder as may be 10 adopted by the commissioner. Such application shall include a detailed 11 description of the proposed activity and a map showing the area of 12 freshwater wetland directly affected, with the location of the proposed 13 activity thereon. For any person proposing to conduct or cause to be 14 conducted a regulated activity involving the use of a pipeline upon any 15 freshwater wetland, such application shall also include the name of the 16 insurance company covering such proposed activity, the amount of cover- 17 age and what is covered under the plan. The clerk or commissioner shall 18 cause notice of such application to be mailed to all local governments 19 where the proposed activity or any part of it is located. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04358-01-3