New York legislation · 2025-2026 General Assembly
New York S10003: Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waters; repealer
Status: In committee, June 5, 2026
Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waters; requires such permits to be subject to environmental quality review procedures; requires financial security to cover any damages directly or indirectly resulting from mining activities on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waterways, including, but not limited to, those resulting from collapse or water contamination.
What the bill says
An act to amend the environmental conservation law and the public lands law, in relation to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waterways; and to repeal certain provisions of the environmental conservation law relating thereto.
From the introduced text, April 22, 2026:
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the public lands law, in relation to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waterways; and to repeal certain provisions of the environmental conservation law relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 12 of section 23-2711 of the environmental conservation law, subdivisions 1, 2, and 8 as amended and subdivisions 3, and 12 as added by chapter 166 of the laws of 1991, are amended and two new subdivisions 11-a and 14 are added to read as follows: 1. After September first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, any person who mines or proposes to mine from each mine site more than one thousand tons or seven hundred fifty cubic yards, whichever is less, of minerals from the earth within [twelve successive calendar months] ONE YEAR or who mines or proposes to mine over one hundred cubic yards of minerals from or adjacent to OR UNDER any body of water not subject to the jurisdiction of article fifteen of this chapter [or to the public lands law] shall not engage in such mining unless a permit for such mining operation has been obtained from …
Sponsors
- Lea Webb (D, 52) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : COMMITTED TO RULES
- : ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- : 2ND REPORT CAL.
- : 1ST REPORT CAL.1310
- : REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Votes
- Senate Environmental Conservation Committee: COMMITTEE Vote (May 20, 2026): 8 yea, 3 nay, passed
- Environmental Conservation Committee Vote (May 20, 2026): 8 yea, 3 nay, passed
Subjects: Environmental Conservation Law
Common questions
- What is S10003?
- S10003 is a bill in the New York Legislature (2025-2026 General Assembly): Relates to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waters; repealer.
- What does S10003 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend the environmental conservation law and the public lands law, in relation to permits and financial security for reclamation for mining on state-owned lands occurring below or beneath navigable waterways; and to repeal certain provisions of the environmental conservation law relating thereto.
- What is the status of S10003?
- In committee as of June 5, 2026. Latest action: COMMITTED TO RULES (June 5, 2026).
- Who sponsored S10003?
- Lea Webb (D, 52).
- Where is the official record for S10003?
- On the New York Legislature website: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S10003
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