Relates to license fees per barrel of petroleum shipped through the state for use outside the state by facilities within 1 mile of a similar facility in another state.
Requires that regular dredging of navigable waterways is scheduled in order to plan and finance to ensure the safe navigability and reliability of waterways in this state; requires a scheduled plan to be filed with DEC.
Directs the department of environmental conservation and office of temporary and disability assistance to establish programs to encourage the removal and replacement of single-wall steel home heating oil storage tanks which are leaking or otherwise pose a threat to the environment.
Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.
Enacts the "food service packaging recycling funding act" in order to provide sustainable funding to increase the state's infrastructure investment for the diversion of food service packaging materials from disposal, assist in establishing domestic end-use markets for recovered food service packaging materials and reduce litter and marine debris attributable to food service packaging materials.
Bans unencapsulated expanded or extruded polystyrene foam in floating docks and floating platforms sold, offered for sale, or constructed in the state.
Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting and on land contributing surface water to the New York city water supply.
Relates to enacting the "New York deforestation protection act"; provides that the department of environmental conservation shall adopt rules to protect forest resources related to timber, pests and invasive species and water and land management.
Decreases the setback requirement in the Peconic and Gardiner's Bays for the Suffolk County Lease Program and Sugar Kelp production from 1,000 feet to 500 feet.
Authorizes the attorney general to approve certain state land acquisitions made for the purposes of land conservation, and to accept a title policy from a commercial insurer to cover any title defects that would otherwise render the title unmarketable.
Exempts certain geothermal boreholes at depths beyond five hundred feet from certain requirements for wells drilled deeper than five hundred feet below the earth's surface.
Relates to requiring the city of New York and counties outside the city of New York to develop a plan to assist the state in achieving its goals for the transition to zero-emissions vehicles; requires such city and counties to include in such plan the number, location and timeframe for installation of electric vehicle stations and a procurement plan to transition to zero-emissions vehicles.