2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 75 - Climate Change › 75-0115 - Community Air Monitoring Program.

§ 75-0115. Community air monitoring program.
1. For purposes of this section, the following definitions and related
  provisions shall apply:
a. "Community air monitoring system" means advanced sensing monitoring
  equipment  that measures and records air pollutant concentrations in the
  ambient air at or near sensitive  receptor  locations  in  disadvantaged
  communities.
b.   "Disadvantaged   community"   means  a  community  identified  as
  disadvantaged pursuant to the criteria set forth in section  75-0111  of
  this article.
c.  "Sensitive  receptors"  includes  hospitals,  schools and day care
  centers, and such other locations as the department may determine.
2. a. On  or  before  October  first,  two  thousand  twenty-two,  the
  department  shall  prepare,  in  consultation  with  the climate justice
  working group, a program demonstrating community air monitoring systems.
b. The program  shall  identify  the  highest  priority  locations  in
  disadvantaged  communities  around  the  state  to  deploy community air
  monitoring systems, which shall be  communities  with  potentially  high
  exposure burdens for toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutants.
  The  program  shall  be  undertaken  in  no  less  than four communities
  statewide with regional consideration.
c. The department shall publish the air quality data produced  by  the
  community  air  monitoring  systems deployed pursuant to this section on
  its website as it becomes available.
3. On or before June first, two thousand twenty-four,  the  department
  shall prepare, in consultation with the climate justice working group, a
  strategy  to reduce emissions of toxic air contaminants and criteria air
  pollutants in disadvantaged communities affected by  a  high  cumulative
  exposure burden. The strategy shall include criteria for the development
  of  community emission reduction programs. The criteria presented in the
  strategy shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
a.  an  assessment  and  identification  of  communities   with   high
  cumulative  exposure burdens for toxic air contaminants and criteria air
  pollutants.
b. a  methodology  for  assessing  and  identifying  the  contributing
  sources  or  categories  of  sources,  including,  but  not  limited to,
  stationary and  mobile  sources,  and  an  estimate  of  their  relative
  contribution   to   elevated  exposure  to  air  pollution  in  impacted
  communities identified pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision.
c. an assessment of the existing and available measures  for  reducing
  emissions  from  the  contributing  sources  or  categories  of  sources
  identified pursuant to paragraph b of this subdivision.
4. a. Based on the  assessment  and  identification  of  disadvantaged
  communities   with  high  cumulative  exposure  burdens  for  toxic  air
  contaminants and criteria air pollutants completed pursuant to paragraph
  a of subdivision three of this  section,  the  department  shall  select
  disadvantaged  communities around the state for preparation of community
  emissions reduction  programs.  The  department  may  select  additional
  locations annually thereafter, as appropriate.
b.  The  department  shall  have  the  authority  to adopt regulations
  establishing programs to achieve emissions reductions for the  locations
  selected  using  the most cost-effective measures identified pursuant to
  paragraph c of subdivision three of this section.