Gibbons Law Alert

Gibbons Law Alert

Tagged: NYSDEC

Throw Out Your Old SEQRA Forms – The Revised Model SEQRA Environmental Assessment Forms Take Effect October 7, 2013

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment / Environmental and Green Issues

On October 4, 2013

Among the many sweeping changes made in recent years to New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), including pending SEQRA amendments and a revised SEQRA handbook, are the adoption of revised model environmental assessment forms (EAFs). The new forms were adopted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYCDEC) back in January of 2012 and become effective as of Monday, October 7, 2013. The new EAFs can be found on NYCDEC’s website.

New York State Comptroller Sets Forth Options for Revitalizing State’s Brownfield Cleanup Programs

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment

On May 13, 2013

Late last month, New York State’s Comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, issued a report reviewing options for modifying the way the state incentivizes and administers cleanups of its thousands of remaining brownfield sites. The Report has special significance in light of Mr. DiNapoli’s expertise in this area: he is a former Chair of the State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee and one of the architects of the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Act, passed in 2003.

New Report Considers Options For Tweaking Brownfields Programs in NY

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment

On May 2, 2013

New York State was among the first to enact programs aimed at remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites. The goal of such programs is both to promote economic revitalization and to encourage private entities to remediate the state’s contaminated sites. Three such programs, the Voluntary Cleanup Program (“VCP”), the Environmental Restoration Program (ERP), and the Brownfield Cleanup Program (“BCP”), have achieved considerable success, with over 400 sites having been remediated in the past two decades. Nevertheless, policy makers continue to search for ways to make these programs better and more cost efficient. Prompted by the impending expiration of key provisions of the BCP, a report released by the New York State Comptroller’s office in April 2013, provides an assessment of these programs, as well as some options for improvement going forward.

New York State Again Defers Decisions Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing

by

Posted in Environmental and Green Issues

On December 21, 2012

On November 28, 2012, New York State confirmed that its health assessment of the proposed regulations governing hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” being conducted by a panel of three leading public health experts, would be delayed. Immediately thereafter, the State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (“NYSDEC”) filed for a 90-day extension of the November 29, 2012, regulatory deadline for finalizing fracking regulations.

New York Court of Appeals Clarifies Relationship Between SEQRA and Brownfield Cleanup Act

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment / Environmental and Green Issues

On November 20, 2012

On October 23, 2012, the New York Court of Appeals handed down its decision in Bronx Committee for Toxic Free Schools v. New York City School Construction Authority. In it, the Court held that the public notice procedures that the School Construction Authority followed under the New York State Brownfield Cleanup Act (BCA) did not satisfy the related, but distinct public notice and comment obligations under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

NY Court Denies Summary Judgment in Seemingly Clear-Cut Case Under NY Navigation Law

by

Posted in Environmental and Green Issues

On August 6, 2012

An upstate Supreme Court Justice has denied summary judgment on liability under Section 181 of the state’s Navigation Law against a company whose predecessor owned and operated a petroleum refinery on the site for almost 60 years. The decision in One Flint Street LLC v. Exxon Mobil Corp, et al., Index No. 2011/4470 (July 18, 2012, Monroe Co. Sup. Ct.) establishes a high bar for obtaining summary judgment in Nav Law cases.

Significant Amendments to New York’s SEQRA Regulations in the Works

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment / Environmental and Green Issues

On July 25, 2012

On July 11, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) released the draft scope for the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) on proposed amendments to the regulations that implement the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). These amendments, intended to streamline the SEQRA process, would create a number of significant changes to the regulations, the first changes since 1996.

The Wait is Finally Over for New York Land Use and Environmental Practitioners … The New Edition of the SEQRA Handbook Has Arrived

by

Posted in Development/Redevelopment / Environmental and Green Issues

On August 25, 2010

It has been almost two decades since the last edition of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) Handbook was released by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s (NYSDEC) Division of Environmental Permits. Despite significant amendments to the SEQR regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617 in January 1996 and tens of hundreds of cases of distinction on SEQR substance and procedure, many land use and environmental practitioners have been left to fend for themselves without up-to-date technical regulatory guidance from NYSDEC until now.

Connect:

About Gibbons

With 200 attorneys, Gibbons is a leading law firm in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, DC, and Florida, ranked among the nation’s top 200 by The American Lawyer. More…

Subscribe

Archived Blog Posts

Categories