NYC Council · Int 0678-2024 · Filed (End of Session)

Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to measure pollutants near potential pollution hotspots in community air quality surveys.

Introduced

Moved

Reached a final decision

Introduced Mar 19, 2024

Official status: Filed (End of Session)

Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to measure pollutants near potential pollution hotspots in community air quality surveys” Read the full text

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What it does

This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to include in its annual community air quality survey pollution measurements for at least 50 “potential pollution hotspots,” locations in close proximity to a source that is likely to significantly increase the concentrations of pollutants in its immediate vicinity.

Summary written by City Council staff, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite with cited sections coming. Not legal advice.