S 3110 New York Senate · 2017 Regular Session

Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group

Summary
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
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Jan 2017
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Introduced Jan 19, 2017 Last action Jan 3, 2018
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Jan 3, 2018
Senate · Referred to committee
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Jan 19, 2017
Senate · Referred to committee
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
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