STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 214 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, CROUCH, GOODELL, MAGNARELLI, GIGLIO, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to asbestos project notifica- tion fees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 904 of the labor law, as amended 2 by section 1 of part BB of chapter 57 of the laws of 2009, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 2. Any contractor engaged in an asbestos project involving more than 5 two hundred sixty linear feet or more than one hundred sixty square feet 6 of asbestos or asbestos materials shall notify both the United States 7 Environmental Protection Agency, Region II, Air and Hazardous Material 8 Division and the commissioner in writing ten days prior to the commence- 9 ment of work on the project or, if emergency conditions make it impossi- 10 ble to provide ten days prior notice, as soon as practicable after iden- 11 tification of the project. The notice to the commissioner shall include 12 the following information: the name, address and asbestos handling 13 license number of the contractor working on the project; the address and 14 description of the building or area, including size, age and prior use 15 of the building or area; the amount of friable asbestos material present 16 in square feet and/or linear feet, if applicable; room designation 17 numbers or other local information where such asbestos material is found 18 unless such material is found throughout the entire structure; the sche- 19 duled starting and completion dates for removal; the procedures and 20 equipment, including ventilating systems that will be employed; any 21 additional information which the commissioner may require; and shall be 22 accompanied by a project notification fee as follows: 23 Project Size/Linear Feet Fee EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02180-01-7

A. 214 2 1 260-429 $200 2 430-824 400 3 825-1649 1,000 4 1650 or more 2,000 5 Project Size/Square Feet (Friable) Fee 6 160-259 $200 7 260-499 400 8 500-999 1,000 9 1000 or more 2,000 10 Project Size/Square Feet Fee 11 (Non-friable/RACM) 12 160-259 $50 13 260-499 75 14 500-999 100 15 1,000-1,999 200 16 2,000-2,999 500 17 3,000-3,999 800 18 4,000-4,999 1,000 19 5,000-5,999 2,000 20 6,000-6,999 3,000 21 7,000-7,999 4,000 22 8,000-8,999 5,000 23 9,000-9,999 6,000 24 10,000 or more 8,000 25 All owner occupied one and two family homes that are occupied during a 26 disaster and then condemned due to disasters such as, but not limited 27 to, floods, fires, tornadoes or hurricanes shall pay a fixed notifica- 28 tion fee for notification purposes of demolition of two hundred dollars. 29 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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