Int. No. 333
By Council Members Gennaro, Gerson, Jennings, Lopez, Martinez and Gonzalez
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the use of fees established under the New York city community right-to-know law.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision d of section 24-706 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as enacted by local law 54 for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
(d) [On or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-three, the] The commissioner shall by rule establish a schedule of fees that shall be paid upon the filing of the facility inventory form required by this chapter. Such fees shall be based on the amount of hazardous substances present, the number of different hazardous substances present and the type of hazardous substances present, including the presence or absence of substances classified as extremely hazardous in rules and regulations promulgated by The United States environmental protection agency pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 11001, et seq. and shall be used exclusively for the purposes of conducting inspections of facilities subject to the provisions of this chapter and for enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after its enactment into law, provided, however, that the commissioner of environmental protection shall undertake all actions necessary for the implementation of its provisions prior to such effective date.