New York S 2053: Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for salt mining beneath a lake

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S02053 Summary:

BILL NOS02053A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORWEBB

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COSPNSRMAY, HARCKHAM

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§23-2711 & 23-2715, En Con L; amd §81, Pub Lds L

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Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for salt mining beneath a lake; requires such permits to be subject to environmental quality review procedures; requires financial security to cover any damages directly or indirectly resulting from salt mining activities beneath a lake, including, but not limited to, those resulting from collapse or water contamination.

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BILL NOS02053A

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01/15/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

02/03/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

02/03/2025PRINT NUMBER 2053A

02/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.326

02/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2053--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. WEBB, MAY, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered print-
 ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental
 Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
 as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the public lands
 law, in relation to permits and financial security for reclamation for
 salt mining beneath a lake

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 11 and 12 of section 23-2711 of the environ-
 2 mental conservation law, as added by chapter 166 of the laws of 1991,
 3 are amended and two new subdivisions 11-a and 14 are added to read as
 4 follows:
 5 11. Permits issued pursuant to this title shall be renewable. A
 6 complete application for renewal shall contain the following:
 7 (a) completed application forms;
 8 (b) an updated mining plan map consistent with paragraph (a) of subdi-
 9 vision one of section 23-2713 of this title and including an identifica-
 10 tion of the area to be mined during the proposed permit term;
 11 (c) a description of any changes to the mined land-use plan, which
 12 shall include, with respect to a permit for salt mining beneath a lake,
 13 an updated reclamation plan of surface and subsurface affected land
 14 accounting for any differences in circumstances since the reclamation
 15 plan was last approved by the department; [and]
 16 (d) an identification of reclamation accomplished during the existing
 17 permit term; and
 18 (e) a thirty-year monitoring plan with respect to a permit for salt
 19 mining beneath a lake of all affected lands, surface and subsurface.
 20 11-a. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary,
 21 with respect to salt mining beneath a lake where no environmental
 22 impact statement has been prepared pursuant to the environmental quali-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03813-03-5

 S. 2053--A 2

 1 ty review requirements of article eight of this chapter with
 2 respect to such mining within the preceding twenty years, any permit
 3 renewal application shall:
 4 (a) not constitute a minor project within the meaning of article
 5 seventy of this chapter;
 6 (b) be treated as an application for a new permit;
 7 (c) constitute an action requiring environmental quality review pursu-
 8 ant to article eight of this chapter; and
 9 (d) be deemed an action that is likely to require the preparation of
 10 an environmental impact statement pursuant to subparagraph (i) of para-
 11 graph (c) of subdivision two of section 8-0113 of this chapter.
 12 12. The procedure for transfer of a permit issued pursuant to this
 13 title is the procedure for permit modification pursuant to article
 14 seventy of this chapter; provided, however, and notwithstanding subdivi-
 15 sion thirteen of this section or any other provision of this section to
 16 the contr