Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.
Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.
Prohibits allocation of economic development power to data centers; provides for certain caps on amounts and eligibility for industrial development agency financial assistance; provides for the return of industrial development agency-awarded financial assistance if certain job levels are not maintained within 5 years of project completion; designates the department of environmental conservation as the mandatory lead agency for environmental quality review of any action consuming over 20 megawatts; requires environmental quality review for any action within 10 miles of a federally recognized Indian nation's territory.
Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study of ecological restoration needs of Jamaica Bay; imposes a five-year moratorium on placing sediment or fill in the borrow pits in Jamaica Bay.
Requires a municipality to notify the department of environmental conservation about certain sites containing illegal or hazardous substances; requires the department of environmental conservation to notify the United States environmental protection agency and create a remediation plan for the affected site.
Establishes the pipeline investment for public environmental solutions program for the purpose of making payments toward the replacement and rehabilitation of existing local municipally-owned and funded drinking water, stormwater and sanitary sewer systems; makes such program eligible for funding from the Clean water, clean air and green jobs environmental bond act of 2022.
In renaming Department of Environmental Resources and defining rulemaking authority of Department of Environmental Protection, repealing provisions relating to Department of Environmental Protection and providing for Department of Environmental Services; and making editorial changes.
In renaming Department of Environmental Resources and defining rulemaking authority of Department of Environmental Protection, repealing provisions relating to Department of Environmental Protection and providing for Department of Environmental Services; and making editorial changes.