What's happening
This bill prohibits the storage of radioactive materials within 1,500 feet of school grounds, with exceptions for certain medical and research facilities.
Why it matters
Aims to enhance safety for children and school staff by significantly restricting where radioactive materials can be stored, reducing potential exposure risks in the event of leaks, spills, or accidents near educational environments.
Could impact businesses and facilities that handle radioactive waste or materials (such as industrial or energy sector operations), potentially requiring them to change storage practices or relocate storage sites away from schools.
Includes targeted exceptions for hospitals, medical practices, research institutions, and certain colleges, recognizing the necessity and controlled use of radioactive substances in healthcare and scientific research—balancing public safety with essential medical and scientific activities.
May prompt local governments and property owners to reassess land use and zoning near schools, influencing future development or redevelopment plans involving facilities that handle radioactive material.
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No Radioactive Storage Near Schools
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2066
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the storage of radioactive materials in proximity to school grounds
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. Storage of radioactive materials in proximity to school
grounds.
1. Definitions.
a. "Storage" means the holding of waste for a temporary period, at the end of which the waste is processed, recovered, disposed of, or stored elsewhere.
b. "Radioactive material" shall have the same meaning as it does in section four hundred eighty-one of the general business law.
c. "School grounds" means any building, structure, and surrounding grounds within the legally defined boundaries, as determined by the appropriate county clerk's office, of a public, private or parochial pre-school, elementary school, or secondary school.
2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the storage of radioactive material shall not be permitted within one thousand five hundred feet of any school grounds, except in those cases where the legal storage of radioactive material is conducted in the ordinary course of business by a professional practice, a public or private hospital or outpatient healthcare facility, a public or private postsecondary institution; or an entity with the primary function of conducting medical or scientific research.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03299-01-7
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