STATE OF NEW YORK
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5181
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the discharge of any radiological agent into the waters of
the state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 17-0513 to read as follows:
3 § 17-0513. Prohibition against radiological pollution.
4 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or entity, directly or indi-
5 rectly, to throw, drain, run or otherwise discharge any radiological
6 agent into the waters of the state.
7 2. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall result
8 in a fine of twenty-five thousand dollars per day for a first violation,
9 fifty thousand dollars per day for a second violation and one hundred
10 fifty thousand dollars per day per violation thereafter.
11 3. The attorney general shall have jurisdiction to enforce the
12 provisions of this section in accordance with the powers granted pursu-
13 ant to section sixty-three of the executive law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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