Details Meeting Name: Committee on Environmental Protection (inactive) Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 11/25/2019 1:00 PM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: Committee Room - City Hall Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (11) 11 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available T2019-5366 *       Oversight - Effectively utilizing water resources for energy generation, safety and conservation. Oversight   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available T2019-5366 *       Oversight - Effectively utilizing water resources for energy generation, safety and conservation. Oversight   Filed, by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0417-2018 * Kalman Yeger     Incentivizing water leak reporting. Introduction This bill would grant the Commissioner of Environmental Protection discretionary authority to offer rewards to the public for reporting water leaks in taps or service pipes. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0417-2018 * Kalman Yeger     Incentivizing water leak reporting. Introduction This bill would grant the Commissioner of Environmental Protection discretionary authority to offer rewards to the public for reporting water leaks in taps or service pipes. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0419-2018 * Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.     Generating, capturing and utilizing energy from city’s water supply, wastewater treatment systems and natural bodies of water. Introduction The local law requires that future construction, upgrading, or maintenance of the city's in-city water supply system infrastructure include an evaluation of whether underground vaults, internal drops, or high pressure pipes exist that can accommodate the construction or installation of a hydroelectric power project and if such installation can be done when the department is undertaking a water supply infrastructure improvement, then it shall be undertaken to capture and use the electricity either on site or through connection to the grid. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0419-2018 * Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.     Generating, capturing and utilizing energy from city’s water supply, wastewater treatment systems and natural bodies of water. Introduction The local law requires that future construction, upgrading, or maintenance of the city's in-city water supply system infrastructure include an evaluation of whether underground vaults, internal drops, or high pressure pipes exist that can accommodate the construction or installation of a hydroelectric power project and if such installation can be done when the department is undertaking a water supply infrastructure improvement, then it shall be undertaken to capture and use the electricity either on site or through connection to the grid. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0834-2018 * Costa G. Constantinides     Potable water hoses in all department of environmental protection capital projects. Introduction This local law would mandate that Department of Environmental Protection capital projects, including repair activities, use potable water hoses. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0834-2018 * Costa G. Constantinides     Potable water hoses in all department of environmental protection capital projects. Introduction This local law would mandate that Department of Environmental Protection capital projects, including repair activities, use potable water hoses. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1182-2018 * Justin L. Brannan     Identifying all vacant and underutilized municipally-owned sites that would be suitable for the development of renewable energy and assessing the renewable-energy generation potential and feasibility of such sites. Introduction The proposed local law would amend Title 24 of the administrative code is amended by adding a new section 24-806.1 to require the department to review the opportunities to generate solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields. This local law would also require that the department undertake a feasibility study, including a cost benefit analysis. A draft of the study must be submitted to the mayor and the speaker of the council on or before September 30, 2019. A final study with recommendations for generation solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields must be submitted to the mayor and the speaker of the council by December 31, 2019. If there are no recommendations made with respect to the opportunities to generate solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites the department would be required to undertake another study in three years to examine this issue again and ascertain whether generation of solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields in New York City is more feasible at that time. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 1182-2018 * Justin L. Brannan     Identifying all vacant and underutilized municipally-owned sites that would be suitable for the development of renewable energy and assessing the renewable-energy generation potential and feasibility of such sites. Introduction The proposed local law would amend Title 24 of the administrative code is amended by adding a new section 24-806.1 to require the department to review the opportunities to generate solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields. This local law would also require that the department undertake a feasibility study, including a cost benefit analysis. A draft of the study must be submitted to the mayor and the speaker of the council on or before September 30, 2019. A final study with recommendations for generation solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields must be submitted to the mayor and the speaker of the council by December 31, 2019. If there are no recommendations made with respect to the opportunities to generate solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites the department would be required to undertake another study in three years to examine this issue again and ascertain whether generation of solar or wind energy from vacant and underutilized sites including closed and capped landfills and brownfields in New York City is more feasible at that time. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available