New York Response to Part 490 Sea-Level Rise Amendment Comments
15 hours ago Guest Blogger
Roger Caiazza
This is an update to some articles that were published early in 2024 about the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) proposed Amendments to Part 490, Projected Sea Level Rise (Amendment). Kip Hansen wrote a post entitled New York State Sea Level Rise: Fantasy as Law. A few days later Anthony Watts responded to a New York Post article by Carl Campanile with the headline: Sea levels around NYC could surge up to 13 inches in 2030s due to climate change: state study. I prepared comments which I summarized in a post. In September 2024 DEC adopted the Amendment. Surprising no one, their Assessment of Public Comments blew off all the concerns expressed.
Part 490 Projected Sea-Level Rise
DEC’s Climate Change Regulatory Revisions webpage describes the Amendment to the regulation:
On September 22, 2014, the Community Risk and Resiliency Act was signed into law — Chapter 355 of the Laws of 2014 (CRRA). CRRA is intended to ensure that decisions regarding certain State permits and expenditures consider climate risk, including sea-level rise. Among other things, CRRA requires the Department of Environmental Conservation (Department) to adopt regulations establishing science-based State sea-level rise projections. Therefore, the Department proposed a new 6 NYCRR Part 490, Projected Sea-Level Rise (Part 490). Part 490 establishes projections of sea-level rise in three specified geographic regions over various time intervals, but does not impose any requirements on any entity. An amended Part 490 was adopted in September 2024 with no revisions to the draft released for public comment in January 2024.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/01/03/new-york-response-to-part-490-sea-level-rise-amendment-comments/
