[CPEO-BIF] NY lawmakers to propose renter notification

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Momentum builds for renter safeguards

Lawmakers to introduce environmental disclosure bill in January

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
November 6, 2005 

Efforts to create safeguards for renters unknowingly exposed to
environmental hazards such as those in Endicott are gaining significant
and growing support among state lawmakers, who expect to introduce
legislation in January. 

Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, chairman of the state Legislature's
Environmental Conservation Committee, said Friday he is working with
colleagues to draft a bill that could be introduced in the next
legislative session. It would require that landlords advise tenants of
hazards such as radon or vapor intrusion -- a process in which vapors
from subterranean chemical pollution waft into homes. 

"That's important information, and we are looking at a legislative fix
in what seems to be a gap in the public's right to know," said DiNapoli,
D-Great Neck, who is working with Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo,
D-Endwell, on the bill. 

While homebuyers must be informed of certain environmental threats, the
same does not apply to renters. An investigation by the Press &
Sun-Bulletin, published Oct. 30, found more than 50 renters living in
apartment buildings in a polluted section of Endicott without systems to
prevent vapor intrusion. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to110605s201293.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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