Ensure that no coastal rehabilitation project receives state assistance until climate risks have been assessed.

Date Due:: N/A
Responsible Entity:: DEC
Action:: Ensure that no coastal rehabilitation project receives state assistance until climate risks have been assessed.
Summary:: The COMM'R of Environmental Conservation may provide state assistance for coastal rehabilitation projects only after determining that climate risks have been assessed.
Status:: ONGOING
Statute:: CRRA § 11 adds new ECL § 54-1105(1).

Statutory Language:

CRRA § 11: “Subdivision 1 of section 54-1105 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 610 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:

1. The commissioner is authorized to provide on a competitive basis, within amounts appropriated, state assistance payments to a municipality or a not-for-profit corporation toward the cost of any coastal rehabilitation project approved by the commissioner provided that the commissioner determines that future physical climate risk due to sea level rise, and/or storm surges and/or flooding, based on available data predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events, including hazard risk analysis data if applicable, has been considered."