The New York City Council - File #: Int 0702-2018

• File #: Int 0702-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Installing pumpout facilities to establish the city’s coastal waters as no-discharge zones.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 3/7/2018
• In control: Committee on Environmental Protection
• On agenda: 3/7/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to installing pumpout facilities to establish the city's coastal waters as no-discharge zones
• Sponsors: James G. Van Bramer, Costa G. Constantinides
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/7/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
3/7/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 702

By Council Members Van Bramer and Constantinides

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to installing pumpout facilities to establish the city's coastal waters as no-discharge zones
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 22-112 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
f. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this subdivision, the term "pumpout facility" has the meaning ascribed to such term in the environmental conservation law.
2. Plan to establish no-discharge zones. (a) No later than March 1, 2017, the department of environmental protection shall create a written plan to establish all of the city's coastal waters as no-discharge zones.
(b) The plan shall consider the existing number and locations of pumpout facilities in or adjacent to the city's coastal waters, and determine the number of additional pumpout facilities required to establish a no-discharge zone in each coastal body of water in the city, and the necessary locations of such additional pumpout facilities.
3. Every calendar year until all of the city's coastal waters are designated as no-discharge zones, the department of environmental protection shall install at least three public pumpout facilities. The department of environmental protection shall prioritize installing pumpout facilities in or around the bodies of water with the lowest number of necessary additional pumpout facilities required to establish them as no-discharge zones, as identified pursuant to subparagraph (b) of paragraph 2 of this subdivision.
4. By March 1 of every year until all of the city's coastal waters are designated as no-discharge zones, the department of environmental protection shall update the plan created pursuant to paragraph 2 of this subdivision and report to the mayor and the council on the pumpout facilities ...