2023 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 May 1, 2028