Text, summary, and supporting memos for S2961, a bill prohibiting the open burning of solid waste

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Text, summary, and supporting memos for A3073, the NYS Assembly's version of the bill prohibiting the open burning of solid waste. This bill has passed the Assembly virtually unanimously every year for the past nine years, but the Senate version has never been allowed to come to a vote in the Senate.

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Statement supporting bill from NY Legislative Commission on Solid Waste

Environmental Advocates of NY memo on bill

NYS Attorney General's initiative on burn barrels

Farm Bureau NY memo opposing bill

News story on status of previous bill June 14, 2002

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