File #: Int 0355-2024    Version: * Name: The emergency and resiliency plans of the department of sanitation.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the emergency and resiliency plans of the department of sanitation
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Lincoln Restler, James F. Gennaro, Crystal Hudson, (by request of the Queens Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require that the Department of Sanitation maintain a separate page on the City’s website where it makes available all of its plans relating to emergencies and resiliency, including provision of services during emergencies, provision of services prior to anticipated flooding events in flood-prone areas, and designing new critical facilities for climate resiliency and retrofitting existing facilities to increase resiliency.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 355, 2. Int. No. 355, 3. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24

Int. No. 355

 

By Council Members Nurse, Restler, Gennaro and Hudson (by request of the Queens Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the emergency and resiliency plans of the department of sanitation

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 16 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 16-144 to read as follows:

§ 16-144 Emergency and resiliency plans. a. The department shall maintain a separate page on the city’s website where all emergency and resiliency plans of the department are made available to the public. Such plans shall include, without limitation:

1. Provision of services during various types of emergencies including blackouts, hurricanes, storm surges, flash flooding and other severe weather events and natural disasters;

2. Provision and prioritization of services prior to anticipated flooding events, including waste collection and cleaning services such as street sweeping, in areas that are identified as prone to flooding in the rainfall-based flooding maps prepared by the department of environmental protection; and

3. Design of critical facilities in accordance with climate resiliency design guidelines and retrofitting existing facilities to increase resiliency.

b. The department shall make all of its emergency and resiliency plans available on a separate page of the city’s website within 120 days following the effective date of the local law that added this section and shall make new or updated plans available on such page when they are finalized by the department.

c. Notwithstanding the requirements of this section, the department shall not be required to disclose any portions of any emergency and resiliency plan if disclosure of such information could compromise public safety.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

Session 13

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