New York A 1226: Provides for the regulation of landfill methane gas control flares for the protection of raptors

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A01226 Summary:

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Provides for the regulation of landfill methane gas control flares for the protection of raptors.

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01/09/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1226

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to regu-
 lation of landfill gas control flares

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "raptor protection act".
 3 § 2. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that landfills
 4 are frequently a source of food for hawks, falcons, owls and other
 5 raptors. Landfills often utilize landfill gas control flares that
 6 consist of tall pipes with automatic igniters that burn the methane gas.
 7 Raptors will use these devices as perches or fly over the flares; when
 8 they ignite, raptors will suffer severe burns, melted beaks, talons or
 9 feathers, or even death. Injured birds have been found throughout the
 10 United States.
 11 § 3. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
 12 section 27-0709 to read as follows:
 13 § 27-0709. Regulation of landfill gas control flares.
 14 1. For the purposes of this section, "landfill" means a solid waste
 15 disposal facility at which solid waste, or its residue after treatment,
 16 is intentionally placed and at which waste shall remain.
 17 2. Every landfill that utilizes landfill gas control flares to burn
 18 methane gas shall be required to install safer and taller perches for
 19 raptors and attach spikes to all landfill gas control flares.
 20 3. The department shall cooperate and consult with manufacturers of
 21 landfill gas control flares to incorporate bird deterrence into the
 22 design of such flares.
 23 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately, except that subdivision 2
 24 of section 27-0709 of the environmental conservation law, as added by
 25 section three of this act, shall take effect on the one hundred eight-
 26 ieth day after such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03808-01-5

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