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Adds Moodna Creek in Orange County to the definition of inland waterways, the official text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    279
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to adding Moodna Creek in
   Orange County to the definition of inland waterways

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 911 of the execu-
 tive  law,  as separately amended by chapters 382 and 397 of the laws of
 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) the state's major creeks comprised of the 18 Mile Creek located in
 Erie county, Chittenango Creek, Bash Bish and Kinderhook  Creek  located
 in Columbia county, Kinderhook Creek located in Rensselaer county, Bash-
 er  Kill, Bushkill, Cattaraugus, Cayadutta, North Chuctanunda, Cincinna-
 ti, East Kill, Esopus (including upper and  lower  branches),  Ferguson,
 Fish  (including  east  and  west  branches),  Gooseberry, Great Valley,
 Kennyetto, Little Sandy, MOODNA, Moyer,  Mud  Creek  located  in  Oneida
 county,  Ninemile  Creek,  Onondaga,  Oriskany, Peekskill Hollow, Reall,
 Roeliff Jansen Kill, Rondout,  Sandy,  Sauquoit,  Schoharie,  Shawangunk
 Kill,  Six  Mile Creek, South Sandy, Oatka, Tonawanda, West Kill, Scaja-
 quada, Wappinger, Webatuck, Wassaic, Willsey in the  village  of  Wurts-
 boro, Wood Creek located in Herkimer county, Wood Creek located in Onei-
 da  county, Black Creek located in Monroe county, Black Creek located in
 Genesee and Wyoming counties, Ellicott Creek  located  in  Erie  county,
 Wynantskill,  Claverack,  Taghkanic, Agawamuck, Wyomanock, and Ley Creek
 and Butternut Creek located in Onondaga county,  Nanticoke  and  Sawkill
 (in  Ulster  county), Saw Kill and Fall Kill located in Dutchess county,
 Otter Kill Creek located in Orange county, Black Meadow Creek located in
 Orange county, and the Silver Lake Outlet located in Wyoming county;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00946-01-5
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