NY Pub Health L § 2401-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 24 - Control of Malignant Diseases Title 1 - General Provisions 2401-B - Cancer Incidence and Environmental Facility Maps.

* § 2401-b.  Cancer  incidence and environmental facility maps. 1. For purposes of this section, "environmental facility" shall have  the  same meaning  as provided in section 3-0317 of the environmental conservation law.   2. For purposes of this section, "cancer incidence  and  environmental facility  maps  technical  advisory group" or "technical advisory group" shall mean the environmental public health  tracking  program  technical advisory   group   required  by  a  cooperative  agreement  between  the department and the federal centers for disease control and prevention.   3. The technical advisory group  shall  make  recommendations  to  the department  on  the  appropriate  use  and  communication  of the cancer incidence and environmental facility maps.  Such  recommendations  shall consider  the  scientific  strengths and limitations of such mapping and overlay methodologies for cancer  tracking  and  geospatial  linking  to significant   disease  risk  factors,  and  the  appropriate  means  for communicating such strengths and limitation to the public in  an  easily discernible manner. The department shall consider the recommendations of the  technical  advisory  group  when  making  the maps required by this section available to the public.   4.  The  department,  in   consultation   with   the   department   of environmental  conservation  and  the  technical  advisory  group, shall establish and maintain a computer mapping  system  for  plotting  cancer incidence  and  environmental facilities throughout the state, including but not limited to cancer clusters. Such maps shall overlay locations of environmental facilities with cancer incidences.   5. Cancer incidence and environmental facility maps shall include data on the incidence of the following cancer types:  (a) lung and bronchus;  (b) female breast;  (c) urinary bladder (including in situ);  (d) brain and other nervous system;  (e) colon and rectum;  (f) non-Hodgkin lymphomas;  (g) leukemias;  (h) thyroid;  (i) liver/intrahepatic bile duct;  (j) kidney and renal pelvis;  (k) prostate;  (l) oral cavity and pharynx;  (m) stomach;  (n) esophagus;  (o) larynx;  (p) pancreas;  (q) corpus uterus;  (r) ovary;  (s) testis;  (t) mesothelioma;  (u) bone;  (v) nasal and nasopharynx; and  (w) soft tissue sarcomas.   6. Plotting of data for cancer incidence  and  environmental  facility maps shall be by census block, except in cases where such plotting could disclose  the  identity  of any person to whom the data relate, in which case census blocks shall be  aggregated  for  plotting  to  protect  the identity  of  such  person.  When  such  aggregation  is  required,  the department shall utilize the minimum number of census blocks practicable to protect the identity of such person.    7. By March first, two  thousand  eleven  the  department  shall  make available  to  the  public  information  on  cancer as designated by the environmental public health tracking program of the centers for  disease control  and  prevention,  and,  in  consultation with the department of environmental  conservation,  current  data  on  locations  and  type of environmental facilities.   8. By June thirtieth, two thousand eleven the  department  shall  make available to the public cancer incidence and environmental facility maps which  show  available  information  on  the  location  of environmental facilities and the total number of reported cancers by census block  and associated data for each reported cancer type listed in subdivision five of this section.   9.  The department shall make available to the public cancer incidence and environmental facility maps in the manner described  in  subdivision four  of  this section showing cancer clusters by cancer types. Prior to plotting such data, the department shall use an appropriate  statistical method  to  detect  statistical anomalies for the purpose of identifying cancer clusters.   The department shall make such maps available on its  public  website, and   shall,  in  consultation  with  the  department  of  environmental conservation, update the maps not less than once every five years.   * NB Repealed March 31, 2022