N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 48-0109: Agency responsibilities

§ 48-0109. Agency responsibilities.

1. Each state agency that engages in activities or operations that

have a significant effect on the environment, including but not limited

to through the adoption of rules and regulations, issuance of permits,

acquisition or maintenance of property, or approval, funding or

undertaking of projects, shall be guided in its decision making on such

activities or operations by an environmental justice policy. Each such

agency shall adopt rules and regulations setting forth its environmental

justice policy not later than two years after the adoption of a model

environmental justice policy pursuant to section 48-0107 of this

article.

2. Each state agency subject to the requirements of subdivision one of

this section shall:

(a) appoint a staff member of the agency to serve as environmental

justice coordinator, to provide information to the public on the

policies, activities and operations of the agency related to

environmental justice and to act as liaison to the environmental justice

advisory group;

(b) notify the advisory group of the appointment of an environmental

justice coordinator; and

(c) develop an environmental justice training plan which includes the

provision of workshops and written materials to appropriate staff

regarding environmental justice and implementation of the agency's

environmental justice policy.