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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2015
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ABINANTI,  ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the
  Department of Environmental Conservation) -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Environmental Conservation

AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
  extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
  tion to manage lobster

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  16  of  section 13-0329 of the environmental
conservation law, as amended by chapter 439 of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
amended to read as follows:
  16.  The  department  may,  until  December thirty-first, two thousand
[fifteen] EIGHTEEN, adopt regulations for Atlantic States Marine Fisher-
ies Commission Areas One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Outer Cape Cod, to
implement conservation measures that affect landings of lobsters, pursu-
ant to the recommendations of the respective Area's Lobster Conservation
Management Team as required by the Interstate  Fishery  MANAGEMENT  Plan
for  [Lobsters]  AMERICAN  LOBSTER adopted by the Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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