Senate Bill No. 585
Public Act No. 19-29
AN ACT CONCERNING AI R QUALITY MONITORING IN TOWNS
NEAR THE CRICKET VAL LEY ENERGY CENTER.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) The Department of
Energy and Environmental Protection shall provide technical
assistance and support to any municipality that purchases, leases or is
provided the use of air monitoring equipment for the purpose of
establishing an air quality baseline in such municipality and
determining any effect on such baseline by the Cricket Valley Energy
Center in the state of New York. Such technical assistance and support
shall include, but not be limited to, the provision of information on
best practices for the establishment of such baseline, guidance on the
siting and placement of such air quality monitors, information
concerning the maintenance and practices required to assure the
accuracy of such monitors, proposed schedules for data retrieval from
such monitors during the calendar year and review of and conclusion
from the results of such data retrieval.