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Int 1449-2025

Requiring the department of environmental protection to report on inspections of green infrastructure sites.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfrontsintroduced 2025-10-29

Filed — closed without being enacted.

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Agenda: 2025-10-29Passed: 2025-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to publicly maintain on the Department’s website a report detailing each time a green infrastructure site is inspected or cleaned, and whether such maintenance was taken due to a complaint.

Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and WaterfrontsDepartment of Environmental Protection and Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability and Office of Recovery and Resiliency.

How it compares

16% of similar bills passed

8 passed · 42 died

This bill: 62 days in committee

Similar bills: median 574 days · 419 days when passed

Sponsors (3)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2025-10-29 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2025-10-29 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2025-10-29 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (4)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-526.2 to read as follows: � 24-526.2 Green infrastructure inspection report. a. For the purposes of this section, the term "green infrastructure" means practices that use or mimic natural systems to manage stormwater runoff where stormwater is either directed to engineered systems for infiltration or detained at a slower rate before it enters the sewer system. Green infrastructure includes but is not limited to rain gardens, infiltration basins, stormwater greenstreets, green roofs, blue roofs, permeable paving, subsurface detention systems, rain barrels and cisterns. b. The commissioner of environmental protection shall publish on the department's website a report on green infrastructure sites, which shall at a minimum provide the following information about each green infrastructure site: 1. The date of the last inspection; 2. The date of the last cleaning or other maintenance; and 3. Whether the inspection, cleaning or other maintenance was in response to a complaint or regular activity of the department of environmental protection. � 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. SA LS #10649 11/2/2022 1 1