New York A 10653: Exempts certain inland lakes from wetlands designations

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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10653
IN ASSEMBLY
July 22, 2024
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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:
1 Section 1. Section 24-0301 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Inland lakes which are navigable waterways and which have an area
4 of one hundred fifty acres or more shall be exempt from designation as a
5 freshwater wetland, whenever the commissioner is delineating boundaries
6 of freshwater wetlands pursuant to subdivision two of this section. For
7 purposes of this section, "inland lake" shall not include any of the
8 great lakes.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15733-03-4