What's happening
This bill prohibits siting or licensing radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations within 1,500 feet of school property.
Why it matters
Enhances safety for children and school communities. by creating a substantial buffer zone between hazardous/radioactive waste sites and school property, reducing potential exposure to dangerous substances.
Limits future site selection for waste facilities. , potentially influencing where such stations can be built, which may shift environmental and public health risks away from densely populated or vulnerable areas.
Could affect local development and property values. , as siting restrictions near schools may make surrounding neighborhoods more attractive to families and investors, while also concentrating waste facilities in less protected areas.
Signals a policy priority on environmental justice and public health. , acknowledging concerns about disproportionate risks to children and the need for stricter regulations around sensitive sites.
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Keep Hazardous Waste From Schools
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History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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No Hazardous Waste Near Schools
In Senate Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Martin Malavé Dilan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1606
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the siting and licensing of radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new section 27-0111 to read as follows: § 27-0111. Siting and licensing of radioactive or hazardous waste
disposal or transfer stations.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a radioactive waste disposal station, a radioactive waste transfer station, a hazardous waste disposal station, or a hazardous waste transfer station shall not be sited within one thousand five hundred feet of the boundary of any school property. Furthermore, no license shall be issued to any individual to operate any radioactive waste disposal station, radioactive waste transfer station, hazardous waste disposal station, or hazardous waste transfer station within one thousand five hundred feet of the boundaries of a school property.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01373-01-7
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