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Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Its regulations are compiled in Title 6 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations. It was founded in 1970, replacing the Conservation Department, [5] and is headed by Basil Seggos. [6] NYS DEC had an annual budget of about $2,588 million for FY 2024, [2] and employs roughly 3,000 people across New York State. [7]
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police (NYSDEC Police), is the law enforcement agency of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Law Enforcement. NYS Environmental Conservation Officers are New York State police officers.
Area codes in New York state; area codes 518 and 838 highlighted in light green. Area codes 518 and 838 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for eastern Upstate New York in the United States. 518 is one of the 86 original North American area codes created in 1947. Area code 838 was added to the 518 numbering plan area ...
The Highland Park Reservoir has a capacity of 26 million gallons. A 2012 agreement between the city, Monroe County Department of Health and New York State Department of Health requires twice ...
The number of civil cases filed by EPA have gradually decreased, and in 2018 the criminal and civil penalties from EPA claims dropped over four times their amounts in 2013, 2016, and 2017. [168] In 2016 EPA issued $6,307,833,117 in penalties due to violations of agency requirements, [ 169 ] and in 2018 the agency issued $184,768,000 in ...
Section 300.110 establishes the National Response Team and its roles and responsibilities in the National Response system, including planning and coordinating responses to major discharges of oil or hazardous waste, providing guidance to Regional Response Teams, co-ordinating a national program of preparedness planning and response, and facilitating research to improve response activities.
The W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus is an office park in western Albany, New York, United States that houses sixteen New York State Government office buildings. The land totals roughly 330 acres (130 ha) and over 3 million square feet (280,000 m 2) of office space, [1] and about 7,000 state employees work there. [2]