New York A 179: Allows for counties through their local governing body to elect to participate in a stream maintenance and flood control program

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A00179 Summary:

BILL NOA00179 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORAngelino

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COSPNSRLemondes, Manktelow, McDonough, Miller, Morinello

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§15-0501, 15-0505 & 16-0111, En Con L; add §120-dd, Gen Muni L

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Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a stream maintenance and flood control program; allows for the local governing body of a county to elect to pass a local law providing for a local option into such program; provides for the county to be responsible for performing the work outlined in an approved stream maintenance and flood control plan.

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BILL NOA00179 

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01/08/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 179

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDONOUGH, MILLER,
 MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
 Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the general
 municipal law, in relation to authorizing and directing the establish-
 ment of a stream maintenance and flood control program as a local
 option for counties

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

 1 Section 1. Section 15-0501 of the environmental conservation law is
 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
 3 6-a. No permit under this section shall be required for stream mainte-
 4 nance and flood control activities conducted in furtherance of a stream
 5 maintenance and flood control plan approved in accordance with the
 6 provisions of subdivision two of section 16-0111 of this chapter.
 7 § 2. Section 15-0505 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 8 by adding a new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
 9 4-a. No permit under this section shall be required for stream mainte-
 10 nance and flood control activities conducted in furtherance of a stream
 11 maintenance and flood control plan approved in accordance with the
 12 provisions of subdivision two of section 16-0111 of this chapter.
 13 § 3. Section 16-0111 of the environmental conservation law, as added
 14 by chapter 727 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 15 § 16-0111. Powers and duties of commissioner.
 16 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed for and in
 17 behalf of the state to carry out the state's participation in a federal
 18 program of flood control, to sign all necessary agreements, and to do
 19 and perform all necessary acts in connection therewith to consummate the
 20 intent and purpose running with the approval by the federal government
 21 of flood control projects in New York state and the allotment of moneys

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01266-01-5

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 1 for such projects, if, as and when made by the federal government. [He]
 2 The commissioner is authorized and empowered, notwithstanding any other
 3 law of this state, to carry out the provisions of this act and to
 4 perform and do such other and further acts not hereby specifically
 5 provided in this act as may be necessary to carry out the projects
 6 [herein] authorized under this article and so as to conform with the act
 7 and rules, regulations and requirements of the federal government made
 8 to govern the expenditures. Work may be carried out by contract or by
 9 department forces or by a combination of these two methods. However, if
 10 the commissioner deems it to be in the interest of the public, [he] the
 11 commissioner may agree with a municipal corporation affected by such
 12 work, to have its contractor or its forces and equipment perform such
 13 work, upon such terms as the commissioner may deem advantageous to the
 14 state. The commissioner shall exercise [his] any powers and duties with
 15 respect to the said flood control projects in a manner that will com