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2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 10 - Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact › 21-1005 - Report and Recommendations of Department.

§ 21-1005. Report and recommendations of department.
The  department  shall submit to the governor and the legislature on
  or before the first day of the January next succeeding the  approval  of
  the Compact its recommendations for any legislative action deemed by the
  department  advisable, including amendments to the statutes of the state
  of New York as well as recommendations for rules or regulations which it
  determines are necessary to carry out the intent  and  purposes  of  the
  Compact. The department shall also, as it deems advisable, submit to the
  governor  and the legislature information on the programs and activities
  of the Council as they relate to the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 10 - Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact › 21-1007 - The Great Lakes Basin Advisory Council; Convening.

§ 21-1007. The Great Lakes Basin advisory council; convening.
1.  Not  later  than  three  months after the effective date of this
  section, the commissioner shall convene the Great Lakes  Basin  advisory
  council pursuant to section 21-0917 of this article.
2.  The  advisory  council  shall  be  convened  for  the  purpose  of
  developing recommendations for legislation, regulations  or  rules  that
  are  necessary to implement and effectuate the requirements and purposes
  of the Compact. The recommendations shall  include,  but  shall  not  be
  limited to the following:
a.  the  evaluation  and recommendations of the threshold levels to be
  included  in  the  implementing  legislation  regulation  or  rules  for
  regulating new or increased water withdrawals in the state;
b.  the  establishment of a permitting program or alternative programs
  in order to meet the water management objectives of this state;
c. the development of the state's water  conservation  and  efficiency
  programs;
d.  the  method for establishing the baseline for determining a new or
  increased diversion, consumptive use, or withdrawal pursuant to  Section
  4.12.2 of the Compact; and
e. the collection and application of scientific information to improve
  understanding  of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin and the impacts of
  withdrawals and diversions.
3. The advisory council shall present its final recommendations to the
  governor and the legislature not later than eighteen  months  after  the
  effective date of this section.
4.  The  department shall not adopt any rule or regulation pursuant to
  the Compact prior to advisory council issuing its final  recommendations
  to the governor and the legislature.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 10 - Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact › 21-1009 - Grievances.

§ 21-1009. Grievances.
1. For the purposes of section 7.3 of the Compact, a person shall be
  aggrieved only when they have exhausted all rights and remedies afforded
  pursuant  to  article  seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules
  and:
a. there is interference with a  present  use  of  the  water  by  the
  complaining  person  or  an  interference  with the complaining person's
  present enjoyment of riparian land occurring prior  to  suit,  or  which
  will immediately occur when the withdrawal complained of is begun;
b. a decrease in the market value of the complaining person's interest
  in riparian land occurring prior to suit or which will immediately occur
  when the withdrawal complained of is begun, regardless of whether his or
  her  use  of the water or enjoyment of riparian land was interfered with
  prior  to  suit,  or  will  be  immediately  interfered  with  when  the
  withdrawal complained of is begun; or
c.  the  complaining  person  is  an  applicant,  and  the complaining
  person's application is denied or modified in whole or in part.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall, however, be  construed  as
  depriving  any person of any remedy either at law or in equity, which he
  or she now has, or may hereafter acquire, under the laws of this state.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1103 - State Member of the Basin Panel and Representative; Planning Members.

§ 21-1103. State  member of the basin panel and representative; planning
members.
1. As provided in the third subdivision of section  three  of  article
  three  of  the  compact the Governor shall be this state's member on the
  basin panel established thereby or shall appoint a representative to act
  for him. He shall appoint four planning members of  the  commissions  to
  serve  at  his  pleasure:  a  citizen who is a resident of the valley, a
  state planning official, a state parks official and an  officer  of  the
  Department of Environmental Conservation.
2.  The  legislative member shall be elected by a majority vote of the
  legislators elected from the counties  of  Clinton,  Essex,  Warren  and
  Washington.
3.  Any  person,  member  or  alternate,  serving  on  the  interstate
  commission on Lake Champlain basin (Incochamp) pursuant to this  section
  shall  be  reimbursed for all necessary expenses incurred as an incident
  of such service, and such reimbursement shall be from the funds of  said
  person's department or office. For this purpose the citizen member shall
  be considered as a member of the executive department.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1105 - Advisors.

§ 21-1105. Advisors.
The Department of Environmental Conservation shall provide an advisory
  committee  who  together with the state Commissioner of Commerce and the
  director of the office  of  regional  development  shall  constitute  an
  advisory committee with whom the members of the interstate commission on
  the Lake Champlain basin from this state may consult with respect to New
  York  participation  in  the compact. Such members of the commission may
  also consult from  time  to  time  with  other  officers  of  the  state
  government or any subdivisions thereof, as may be appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1107 - Cooperative Services.

§ 21-1107. Cooperative services.
Departments,   agencies  and  officers  shall  provide  technical  and
  administrative  services  to  the  interstate  commission  on  the  Lake
  Champlain basin upon request.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1109 - Budget.

§ 21-1109. Budget.
The  interstate  commission  on  the Lake Champlain basin shall submit
  annually to the Director of the Budget, in accordance with the rules and
  practice of the state, for study and consideration by such Director,  an
  estimate  of  moneys  required  to  administer,  manage and support, the
  commission during the ensuing fiscal year. Such estimate  shall  include
  any  request  for  appropriation  of  funds  by  New  York  and shall be
  accompanied by a tabulation of similar  requests  which  the  commission
  expects  to  make  to  each other member and the formula or factors upon
  which such respective requests are based.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1111 - Audit.

§ 21-1111. Audit.
Pursuant to subdivision five of article four of the compact, the state
  Comptroller  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered from time to time to
  examine  the  accounts  and  books  of  the  commission,  including  its
  receipts,  disbursements and such other items referring to its financial
  standing as such Comptroller may deem proper and to report  the  results
  of such examination to the Governor.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 11 - Champlain Basin Compact › 21-1113 - Inconsistent Laws.

§ 21-1113. Inconsistent laws.
No   provision  of  this  chapter  or  of  any  other  law,  which  is
  inconsistent with the provisions of the compact shall be  applicable  to
  the  interstate commission on the Lake Champlain basin or to any matters
  governed by the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1303 - Member and Alternate.

§ 21-1303. Member and alternate.
1.  As  provided  in  section  2.2 of the compact, the Governor or his
  designee shall be this state's  member  on  the  commission  established
  thereby.  An  officer  of  the  Department of Environmental Conservation
  shall be appointed as the designee if one  is  appointed.  The  Governor
  shall  appoint  an  alternate pursuant to section 2.3 of the compact. If
  the Governor does not appoint a  designee  to  act  for  him,  he  shall
  appoint  an  officer  of the Department of Environmental Conservation as
  alternate.
2. Any person  serving  on  the  Susquehanna  river  basin  commission
  pursuant  to this section shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses
  incurred as an incident of such service and such reimbursement shall  be
  from the funds of said person's department or office.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1305 - Advisory Committee.

§ 21-1305. Advisory committee.
The Department of Environmental Conservation shall provide an advisory
  committee with whom the member of the Susquehanna river basin commission
  from  this  state  may  consult  with respect to the conduct of New York
  participation in the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1307 - Consent to Alteration of Diversion.

§ 21-1307. Consent to alteration of diversion.
1.   Consent  of  the  member  from  this  state  to  the  impairment,
  diminution,  or  other  adverse  effect  on   diversions,   compensating
  releases,   rights,  conditions,  obligations  and  provisions  for  the
  administration thereof as contemplated by section  3.8  of  the  compact
  shall  not be given, except with the prior approval of the Department of
  Environmental Conservation.
2. Except with respect to diversions governed by  subdivision  one  of
  this section the provisions of section 15-1505 of this chapter shall not
  apply  to  any  diversion  or  furnishing  of  water  authorized or made
  pursuant to the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1309 - Jurisdiction of Courts.

§ 21-1309. Jurisdiction of courts.
Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the phrase "court of
  competent  jurisdiction"  as  used  in  the  compact  shall  mean,  with
  reference to courts of this state, the supreme court, and said court  is
  hereby  given  all  necessary  and  appropriate jurisdiction to hear and
  determine any  action  or  proceeding  brought  before  it  pursuant  to
  appropriate  provisions  of  the compact. As used in section 11.6 of the
  compact, the phrase "court of competent jurisdiction" shall  mean,  with
  reference  to  courts  of  this  state,  a court in which an appropriate
  proceeding under article seventy-eight of the  Civil  Practice  Law  and
  Rules  may  be  brought.  As  used  in  clause one of subdivision (a) of
  section  15.1  of  the  compact,  the   phrase   "court   of   competent
  jurisdiction"  shall  mean  with  reference to courts of this state, any
  court in which an action or proceeding  of  the  class  brought  by  the
  Susquehanna river basin commission may be heard and determined.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1311 - Prior Project Approval.

§ 21-1311. Prior project approval.
No  project  requiring license, permit or other approval by any agency
  or officer of this state, or any subdivision thereof, shall be given any
  final license, permit or approval, by such agency  or  officer  of  this
  state  if  such project requires approval of the Susquehanna river basin
  commission pursuant to this compact  and  such  approval  has  not  been
  given.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1313 - Delegations of Power.

§ 21-1313. Delegations of power.
No  agency  or  officer of this state or any subdivision thereof shall
  accept or exercise any delegation of power pursuant to section  11.1  of
  the  compact  unless,  in  the absence of the compact, it would have the
  constitutional or statutory power to exercise  such  power  on  its  own
  account.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1315 - Cooperative Services.

§ 21-1315. Cooperative services.
Departments,   agencies  and  officers  shall  provide  technical  and
  administrative services to the Susquehanna river basin  commission  upon
  request   within  the  limits  of  available  appropriations  and  shall
  cooperate generally  with  said  commission  for  the  purposes  of  the
  compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1316 - Report and Recommendations of Department.

§ 21-1316. Report and recommendations of department.
The  department  shall  submit  to the governor and the legislature of
  this state on or  before  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  January,  nineteen
  hundred seventy-eight, and every year thereafter, a detailed examination
  and  evaluation of the programs and activities of the commission as they
  relate to  New  York  state  and  shall  make  recommendations  for  any
  legislative   action  deemed  by  the  department  advisable,  including
  amendments to  the  statutes  of  the  signatory  states  which  may  be
  necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1317 - Budget.

§ 21-1317. Budget.
The  Susquehanna  river  basin commission shall submit annually to the
  Director of the Budget, in accordance with the rules  and  practices  of
  the  state  for study and consideration by such Director, an estimate of
  monies required to administer, manage and support the commission  during
  the  ensuing  fiscal  year.  Such estimate shall include any request for
  appropriation of funds by  New  York  and  shall  be  accompanied  by  a
  tabulation  of  similar requests which the commission expects to make to
  each signatory and the formula or factors  upon  which  such  respective
  requests  are based. The provisions of section 14.3 of the compact apply
  to the budgetary and other fiscal matters related to  the  participation
  of this state in the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1319 - Audit.

§ 21-1319. Audit.
Pursuant to subdivision (b) of section 15.11 of the compact, the state
  Comptroller  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered from time to time to
  examine  the  accounts  and  books  of  the  commission,  including  its
  receipts,  disbursements  and  other  items  referring  to its financial
  standing as the Comptroller may deem proper and to report the results of
  such examination to the Governor.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 13 - Susquehanna River Basin Compact › 21-1321 - Inconsistent Laws.

§ 21-1321. Inconsistent laws.
No  provision  of this chapter or of any other law of this state which
  is inconsistent with the provisions of the compact shall  be  applicable
  to  the  Susquehanna river basin commission or to any matter governed by
  the compact.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1503 - Commissioner and Alternate.

* § 21-1503. Commissioner and alternate.
The  Governor  shall be this state's member on the mid-Atlantic states
  air  pollution  control  commission.  The  Governor  shall  appoint  the
  Commissioner  of Environmental Conservation as his alternate pursuant to
  section 2.3 of article two of such compact.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1505 - Advisors.

* § 21-1505. Advisors.
1.  The  mayor  of the city of New York, or his designee, shall be the
  advisor of this state's member of the mid-Atlantic states air  pollution
  control commission, as contemplated by section 2.6 of article two of the
  mid-Atlantic  states  air  pollution  control compact, provided that any
  such designee shall not be accorded any privileges as  such  unless  the
  mayor  shall  have  notified  this  state's member and the commission in
  writing of the selection of such designee.
2. The Department  of  Environmental  Conservation  shall  provide  an
  advisory  committee  with whom this state's member of the commission may
  consult with respect to the conduct of New  York  participation  in  the
  compact.  Such  member  of  the commission also may consult from time to
  time with other officers of the  state  government  or  any  subdivision
  thereof, as may be appropriate.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1507 - Jurisdiction of Courts.

* § 21-1507. Jurisdiction of courts.
Except  as otherwise specifically provided in such compact, the phrase
  "court of competent jurisdiction" as used in the mid-Atlantic states air
  pollution control compact shall, with reference to this state, mean  the
  supreme  court,  and  said  court  is  hereby  given  all  necessary and
  appropriate jurisdiction to hear and determine any action or  proceeding
  brought  before it pursuant to appropriate provisions of the compact. As
  used in section 4.6 of the  compact,  the  phrase  "court  of  competent
  jurisdiction"  shall  mean  a  court  in which an appropriate proceeding
  under article seventy-eight of the Civil Practice Law and Rules  may  be
  brought.  As  used  in  subdivision a of section 3.2 of the compact, the
  phrase "court of competent jurisdiction" shall mean any  court  of  this
  state  in  which  an action or proceeding of the same class brought by a
  resident could be heard and determined.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1509 - Budget.

* § 21-1509. Budget.
The  mid-Atlantic states air pollution control commission shall submit
  annually to the Director of the Budget, in accordance with the rules and
  practice of the state, for study and consideration by such Director,  an
  estimate  of  moneys  required  to  administer,  manage  and support the
  commission during the ensuing fiscal year. Such estimate  shall  include
  any  request  for  appropriation  of  funds  by  New  York  and shall be
  accompanied by a tabulation of similar  requests  which  the  commission
  expects to make to each other signatory party and the formula or factors
  upon which such respective requests are based. The provisions of section
  6.1 of the compact shall apply to the budgetary and other fiscal matters
  relating to the participation of this state in the compact.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1511 - Audit.

* § 21-1511. Audit.
Pursuant  to  section  6.1  of  the  mid-Atlantic states air pollution
  control  compact,  the  state  Comptroller  is  hereby  authorized   and
  empowered  from  time  to  time to examine the accounts and books of the
  commission, including its receipts, disbursements and such  other  items
  referring  to  its financial standing as the Comptroller may deem proper
  and to report the results of such examination to the Governor.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 15 - Mid-Atlantic States Air Pollution Control Compact › 21-1513 - Inconsistent Laws.

* § 21-1513. Inconsistent laws.
No provision of this chapter or of any other law which is inconsistent
  with  the  provisions  of  the mid-Atlantic states air pollution control
  compact shall be applicable to the  mid-Atlantic  states  air  pollution
  control commission or to any matter governed by such compact.
  * NB Denied Congressional consent; preempted by enactment of federal Air
Quality Act of 1967 (81 stat. 485)
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 17 - Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact › 21-1703 - Force and Effect of the Compact.

§ 21-1703. Force and effect of the compact.
Upon  its  signature by the respective governors on behalf of at least
  the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and by  the
  Governor  on  behalf  of the state of New York, and upon the attestation
  thereof by the secretary of state of each of the  signatory  states  and
  commonwealth  and  the  affixing thereto of the seal of each of the said
  states and commonwealth, and the aforesaid compact, which may  be  known
  and cited as the Delaware basin compact, shall be and become binding and
  shall  have  the force and effect of a statute of the state of New York,
  and the Delaware river basin water  commission  shall  thereupon  become
  vested with all the powers, rights and privileges, and be subject to the
  duties  and  obligations,  contained  in said compact as though the same
  were specifically authorized and imposed by statute, and  the  state  of
  New  York  shall  be bound by all of the obligations assumed by it under
  said compact; and the Governor shall transmit an  original  signed  copy
  thereof to the Secretary of State of the state of New York for filing in
  his office.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 17 - Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact › 21-1705 - Consent of the Congress.

§ 21-1705. Consent of the congress.
The  Governor is hereby authorized to apply, on behalf of the state of
  New York, to the congress of the  United  States  for  its  consent  and
  approval  to  the aforesaid compact; but, in the absence of such consent
  and approval, the Delaware river basin water commission shall  have  all
  of  the  powers which the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the states of
  New Jersey and New York (and the  State  of  Delaware  if  and  when  it
  becomes  a  signatory  state) may confer upon it without the consent and
  approval of the congress.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 21 - Pollution Control Compacts › Title 17 - Delaware River Basin Water Commission Compact › 21-1707 - Effective Date of This Act.

§ 21-1707. Effective date of this act.
The  provisions  of  this  act shall become effective immediately upon
  final enactment; but the Governor  shall  not  enter  into  the  compact
  herein  set  forth until the state of New Jersey and the commonwealth of
  Pennsylvania shall have passed a substantially similar act embodying the
  said compact between at least the states of New Jersey, New York and the
  commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 22 - Mining of Uranium › 22-1030 - Legislative Findings.

§ 22-1030. Legislative findings.
The  legislature  hereby finds and declares that mining of uranium may
  pose a significant danger to the public health, safety and  welfare  and
  the environment in that:
1.   such   mining   activities  may  pose  a  significant  threat  of
  contamination and depletion of  the  state's  drinking  water  supplies,
  including surface and subsurface waters;
2. mining activity poses the danger of release of airborne radioactive
  particulates which may endanger the health of residents and the value of
  livestock and dairy products;
3. no adequate method currently exists for storing wastes created as a
  result of uranium mining;
4.  in  the  event  of  abandonment  of  any  such mine site caused by
  financial insolvency or other reasons, significant cleanup costs may  be
  forced  upon  state  or  local  governments  and  may  harm their fiscal
  integrity;
5. abatement of the hazards associated with  uranium  mining  requires
  technology or administrative techniques not yet extant, proven reliable,
  or proven economically feasible;
6.  the  activities  associated  with  uranium mining may detract from
  scenic qualities, and reduce property values, tourist revenues, and  the
  general quality of life in the affected area.
The  legislature  therefore finds that particular caution is needed in
  determining public policy pertaining to the mining of uranium  and  that
  the prohibition of this activity is necessary at this time to insure the
  protection of the public health, safety and welfare.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 22 - Mining of Uranium › 22-1050 - Definitions.

§ 22-1050. Definitions.
For  the  purposes  of this article the following terms shall have the
  following meanings:
1. "Mining" means the extraction  or  removal  of  minerals  from  the
  ground  or  the  breaking  of the surface soil in order to facilitate or
  accomplish the extraction or removal of such minerals for commercial  or
  industrial  use;  but  shall  not  include  excavation  or  grading when
  conducted solely in aid of on-site farming or construction.
2.  "Person"  means  any  natural  person,  corporation,  association,
  partnership,   receiver,  trustee,  executor,  administrator,  guardian,
  fiduciary  or  other  representative  of  any  kind,  and  includes  any
  department,  agency  or  instrumentality  of  the  state  or  any of its
  governmental subdivisions.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 22 - Mining of Uranium › 22-1070 - Activities Prohibited.

§ 22-1070. Activities prohibited.
No  person  shall  mine  for  uranium by any method including, but not
  limited to, drilling, excavation  and  liquid  or  chemical  extraction.
  Nothing  in  this  article  shall be construed to prohibit or in any way
  restrict mining for coal, peat, garnet, marble, granite,  or  any  other
  material  which  may  contain  traces  of  uranium  in amounts which are
  uneconomical to extract or remove for commercial and industrial use.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 3 - General Provisions › 23-0301 - Declaration of Policy.

§ 23-0301. Declaration of policy.
It  is  hereby  declared  to be in the public interest to regulate the
  development, production and utilization of natural resources of oil  and
  gas  in  this state in such a manner as will prevent waste; to authorize
  and to provide  for  the  operation  and  development  of  oil  and  gas
  properties  in such a manner that a greater ultimate recovery of oil and
  gas may be had, and that the correlative rights of all  owners  and  the
  rights of all persons including landowners and the general public may be
  fully  protected,  and to provide in similar fashion for the underground
  storage  of  gas,  the  solution  mining   of   salt   and   geothermal,
  stratigraphic and brine disposal wells.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 3 - General Provisions › 23-0303 - Administration of Article.

§ 23-0303. Administration of article.
1.  Except  to  the  extent that the administration of this article is
specifically entrusted to other agencies or officers of the state by its
provisions, such administration shall be by the department.   Geological
services  for  the  department  in connection with the administration of
this article shall be provided by  or  in  cooperation  with  the  state
geologist.  Within  appropriations therefor the department is authorized
to employ such personnel as may be necessary for the  administration  of
this  article  and  may  also  employ  or  secure  the  services of such
engineering, technical and other consultants as it may require from time
to time.
2. The provisions of this article shall supersede all  local  laws  or
ordinances  relating  to  the  regulation  of  the oil, gas and solution
mining industries; but shall not supersede local government jurisdiction
over local roads or the rights  of  local  governments  under  the  real
property tax law.
3.  a.  The commissioner shall accept from municipalities requests for
funds from the oil and gas fund to reimburse the municipality for  costs
incurred  in  repairing  damages  to  municipal  land  or property. Such
requests shall include such explanatory material  and  documentation  as
the commissioner may require.
b.  The commissioner and director of the budget, may recommend payment
to the municipality  to  satisfy  the  request  for  reimbursement  upon
finding that:
(1)  The  municipality  has made a bona fide effort to seek relief and
recover its costs from those deemed to  be  responsible  and  any  other
appropriate avenues, but has been unsuccessful;
(2)  The damage was a direct result of activities regulated under this
article and that the amount of funds requested is reasonable in view  of
such damages; and
(3)  The  costs  were  incurred  after  the  effective  date  of  this
subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 3 - General Provisions › 23-0309 - Severability.

§ 23-0309. Severability.
The  provisions  of this article shall be severable and if any phrase,
  clause, sentence or provision of  this  article,  or  the  applicability
  thereof  to  any  person  or  circumstance  shall  be  held invalid, the
  remainder of this article and  the  application  thereof  shall  not  be
  affected thereby.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 3 - General Provisions › 23-0311 - New York State Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Advisory Board.

§ 23-0311. New York state oil, gas and solution mining advisory board.
1.  A  thirteen  member  New  York  state oil, gas and solution mining
  advisory board shall be created within  the  department  to  advise  and
  assist  the  commissioner  and  other  state  agencies on activities and
  policies related to the development, operation  and  regulation  of  the
  oil, gas and solution mining industry. The members shall be appointed by
  the   governor,   with  a  majority  representative  of  the  respective
  industries. Three of the members shall be appointed upon  recommendation
  of  the  majority leader of the senate and three of the members shall be
  appointed  upon  recommendation  of  the  speaker   of   the   assembly.
  Appointments  shall be made for three-year terms. Members shall continue
  in office until their successors have been appointed and qualified.  The
  governor  shall  select  a chair from among the members. The board shall
  meet at least twice yearly and the members shall  receive  reimbursement
  for  expenses.  The  department shall provide the board with secretarial
  services.
2. The chair of the public service commission, the  president  of  the
  New  York  state  energy  research  and development authority, the state
  geologist, and the commissioner shall serve the board in  an  ex-officio
  capacity.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  seek  the  views of the board on matters
  within their scope of concern and shall specifically request the board's
  participation  at  an  early  developmental  stage  of  any  new  rules,
  regulations and policies being contemplated or developed. In addition to
  such  other  duties  as the commissioner may suggest or the board on its
  own volition may choose to undertake, the board shall:
a. Review and comment on the criteria to be used by the department  in
  selecting abandoned wells for plugging or replugging.
b. Review and comment on proposed rules and regulations and department
  activities affecting the industry.
c.  Recommend  to  the  governor,  the  commissioner,  and other state
  agencies program directions or modifications related to the development,
  operation, and regulation of the oil, gas, and solution mining industry.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 7 - Voluntary Integration and Unitization in Oil and Natural Gas Pools and Fields › 23-0701 - Voluntary Integration and Unitization in Oil and Natural Gas Pools and Fields.

§ 23-0701. Voluntary  integration and unitization in oil and natural gas
pools and fields.
1. Voluntary integration and unitization in oil pools or fields and in
  natural gas pools or fields shall be subject to the provisions  of  this
  section.  When two or more separately owned tracts are embraced within a
  spacing unit, or when there are separately owned interests in all  or  a
  part  of  a  spacing  unit,  the  interested persons may integrate their
  tracts or interests for the development and  operation  of  the  spacing
  unit.  An  agreement for the unit or for the cooperative development and
  operation of a field, pool, or part thereof, may  be  submitted  to  the
  department  for  approval  as being in the public interest or reasonably
  necessary to prevent waste. Such approval shall  constitute  a  complete
  defense  to  any  suit  charging  violation of any statute of this state
  relating to trusts and monopolies on account thereof or  on  account  of
  operations  conducted  pursuant  thereto.  Failure  to  submit  such  an
  agreement to the department for approval shall not for that reason imply
  or constitute  evidence  that  the  agreement  or  operations  conducted
  pursuant  thereto  are  in  violation  of  laws  relating  to trusts and
  monopolies.
2. Upon twenty-one days notice to  the  fee  owners  of  oil  and  gas
  interests  under  lease in a spacing unit, a well operator may record as
  to each tract for which notice has been given a declaration of voluntary
  integration. The declaration of voluntary integration shall include  the
  acreage  applicable  to each tract so integrated and the proportion such
  acreage bears to the entire spacing unit. The declaration  of  voluntary
  integration shall be final and binding upon all persons and their heirs,
  successors  and  assigns, and all persons who take title by operation of
  law.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 11 - Leases for Production and Storage of Oil and Gas on State Lands › 23-1103 - Procedure for Obtaining Gas Storage Lease.

§ 23-1103. Procedure for obtaining gas storage lease.
1.  The  department  may  make  leases on behalf of this state for the
  storage of gas, and liquefied petroleum gas, in state owned  lands  upon
  such  terms  and  conditions including consideration as to it shall seem
  just and proper.
2. All leases made pursuant to this section shall:
a. Provide for payment to the  agency  having  jurisdiction  over  the
  leased lands of adequate and reasonable consideration;
b.  Be invalid unless they shall have the prior approval of such state
  department, division, bureau or agency thereof, or state  agency  having
  jurisdiction  over  the  land  in  question,  and authority to give such
  consent is hereby conferred upon the head of any such state  department,
  or  a  division, bureau or agency thereof, or any state agency; and with
  respect to lands  under  water  held  by  the  state  in  its  sovereign
  capacity,  jurisdiction  is  deemed to be in the Commissioner of General
  Services;
c. Contain such other terms and provisions  as  may  be  necessary  or
  appropriate  in  order  to  promote the purposes of this article and the
  public policy of this state; and
d. Be inapplicable to any lands the leasing of which is prohibited  by
  the State Constitution.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 11 - Leases for Production and Storage of Oil and Gas on State Lands › 23-1105 - Prohibition on State Authorizations Related to Certain Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Production.

§ 23-1105. Prohibition   on  state  authorizations  related  to  certain
offshore oil and natural gas production.
1. Neither the department nor the office  of  general  services  shall
  enter  into  any new lease or other conveyance, lease renewal, extension
  or modification, that authorizes the exploration for, or the development
  and production of, oil or natural gas upon lands owned by the  state  in
  the  marine  and  coastal district as defined in section 13-0103 of this
  chapter, that would result  in  the  increase  of  oil  or  natural  gas
  production from federal waters.
2.   The   department  is  authorized  to  establish  such  rules  and
  regulations as it shall deem necessary to implement this section.
3. For the purposes of this section,  the  following  terms  have  the
  following meanings:
a.  "Development"  means  those  activities taking place following the
  discovery of  oil  and  natural  gas,  including  geophysical  activity,
  drilling, platform construction, pipeline construction, and operation of
  all  onshore  support  facilities that are performed for the purposes of
  ultimately producing the resources discovered.
b. "Exploration" means the process of searching for  oil  and  natural
  gas,   including  any  drilling  whether  on  or  off  known  geological
  structures, including the drilling of a well in which a discovery of oil
  or natural gas is made and the drilling of  any  additional  delineation
  well after the discovery that is needed to delineate any reservoir and a
  lessee to determine whether to proceed with development and production.
c.  "Federal  waters"  means  those  waters  and submerged lands lying
  seaward to the state waters of New York that  appertain  to  the  United
  States and are subject to federal jurisdiction and control.
d.  "New  or additional exploration, development, or production of oil
  or natural  gas"  includes  any  activity  undertaken  to  increase  the
  capacity  of  any pipeline or other infrastructure used to convey oil or
  natural gas from federal waters.
e. "Production" means those  activities  that  take  place  after  the
  successful  completion  of  any means for the removal of oil and natural
  gas, including that removal, field operations, transfer or resources  to
  shore,   operation,  monitoring,  maintenance,  and  workover  drilling.
  "Producing" means undertaking those activities.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 13 - Underground Storage of Gas › 23-1305 - Procedure for Abandoning Storage Reservoir.

§ 23-1305. Procedure for abandoning storage reservoir.
In   connection  with  the  abondonment  of  any  underground  storage
  reservoir for which a permit has been granted pursuant to  this  article
  or  in connection with the revocation of any such permit, the department
  shall require the premises to be placed in a  condition  which,  to  the
  extent  practicable,  shall  assure  the  continuance  of  the same in a
  condition which does not constitute a menace to the  present  or  future
  health or safety of persons, or safety or value of property. In case the
  operator  shall  fail  to  put  the premises in a satisfactory condition
  prior to any such  abondonment  or  immediately  upon  revocation  of  a
  permit,  the  department may do or cause to be done all things necessary
  to place the premises in satisfactory condition and the  operator  shall
  be liable for the cost.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 13 - Underground Storage of Gas › 23-1307 - Ownership of Storage Gas and Storage Rights.

§ 23-1307. Ownership of storage gas and storage rights.
1.  All  gas  and  liquefied  petroleum gas, which has previously been
  reduced  to  possession,  and  which  is  lawfully  injected   into   an
  underground  storage  reservoir,  shall  be  deemed  the property of the
  injector, his heirs, successors or assigns, provided that the  injector,
  his  heirs,  successors  or  assigns, shall have no right to reserves of
  native gas or oil remaining in any stratum or portion thereof which have
  not been condemned hereunder or otherwise acquired by such injector, his
  heirs, successors or assigns.  Nothing  contained  in  this  subdivision
  shall  be  construed  to  confer  on any operator any storage rights not
  otherwise acquired or held by him.
2. No production lease shall be construed to include rights  to  store
  oil  or  gas unless the lease includes a provision granting such storage
  rights. The rule of construction provided in  this  subdivision  is  not
  intended  to  alter any law or rule of construction applicable to leases
  made prior to October 1, 1963 or to imply any rule of  construction  for
  such leases.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 17 - Liquefied Natural and Petroleum Gas › 23-1703 - Legislative Findings.

§ 23-1703. Legislative findings.
The  legislature  finds that it is necessary for the protection of the
  public health, the environment and the economic welfare of the people of
  this state to regulate and control the siting of liquefied  natural  and
  petroleum  gas  facilities in this state because of the hazards posed by
  liquefied  natural  and  petroleum  gas  storage   and   transportation,
  particularly  in  populated  areas. The legislature finds that liquefied
  natural and petroleum gas is an extremely volatile, highly flammable and
  dangerous substance which if released into the  air  is  capable,  under
  unfavorable  atmospheric  conditions,  of  causing severe damage even in
  areas distant from the point of release. The legislature  further  finds
  that  the  use  of imported and domestic liquefied natural and petroleum
  gas  is  increasing,  making  its  regulation  in  the  public  interest
  essential;   and   requiring   particular   caution   in   its  storage,
  transportation,  and  conversion,  to  be  carried  out  other  than  in
  residential  areas  or  in dangerous proximity to contiguous population,
  with the imposition of strict liability in the handling thereof.
It is the purpose of the legislature, subject  to  the  provisions  of
  this  act,  that  liquefied  natural  or petroleum gas facilities not be
  sited in residential areas, or  in  dangerous  proximity  to  contiguous
  populations,  and  that transportation of liquefied natural or petroleum
  gas be effected under maximum  safeguards  to  protect  such  areas  and
  populations  against  possible catastrophic danger in the mishandling or
  possible escape thereof. Natural gas stored  or  transported  at  normal
  temperatures,  whether  under  pressure  or  otherwise, after conversion
  thereof from its super-cooled or cryogenic state as  liquefied  gas  and
  liquefied  petroleum  gases in the form of butane, bottled gas, propane,
  propylene  and  butylene  gas  when  stored  or  transported  at   their
  respective  normal  temperatures are not subject to regulation under the
  provisions of this act.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 23 - Mineral Resources › Title 17 - Liquefied Natural and Petroleum Gas › 23-1705 - Definitions.

§ 23-1705. Definitions.
As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.  "Liquefied  natural  gas",  sometimes  referred  to  as "LNG", and
  "liquefied petroleum gas", sometimes  referred  to  as  "LPG",  are  gas
  cooled to its liquid state provided, however, the provisions of this act
  shall  not  be deemed to apply to liquefied petroleum gas in the form of
  butane, bottled gas, propane, propylene or butylene when used, stored or
  transported at their respective normal temperatures, are not subject  to
  this act.
2.  "Liquefied  natural or petroleum gas facility" means any structure
  or facility which is used for the storage or  confinement  of  liquefied
  natural  or petroleum gas, or for the conversion of liquefied natural or
  petroleum gas into natural gas. The former  shall  be  designated  as  a
  "liquefied  natural  or petroleum gas storage facility"; the latter as a
  "liquefied natural or petroleum gas conversion facility".
3. "Liquefied natural or petroleum gas transportation activity"  means
  the  loading,  unloading,  or  transportation,  by  whatever  means,  of
  liquefied natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
4. "Natural gas" means natural or petroleum gas  in  a  non-liquid  or
  gaseous  state,  whether under pressure or otherwise, and whether or not
  the product of  conversion  from  liquefied  natural  gas  or  liquefied
  petroleum  gas.  The  storage and transportation of natural gas, whether
  under pressure or not, and which take place at normal temperatures,  are
  not subject to this act.
5.  "Non-conforming  facility"  means a liquefied natural or petroleum
  gas facility in actual use and operation on  September  first,  nineteen
  hundred  seventy-six  which is exempted from the requirements of section
  23-1707 but is subject to the requirements of section 23-1719.
6.  "Person"   means   any   individual,   corporation,   partnership,
  association,  cooperative  or  otherwise,  trust or estate, governmental
  agency, authority, public benefit corporation,  municipality  or  agency
  thereof, board or commission, or other public or private legal entity.
7.  "Permit"  means  an  environmental  safety  permit  issued  by the
  department pursuant to this title.