The First Department, in the Matter of East River Realty v. N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation, 2009 NY Slip Op 9381 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dep’t 2009), recently upheld a Supreme Court ruling that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (”NYSDEC”) cannot use a “but-for” test in determining
Continuing with our prior post, this post discusses the Court of Appeal’s ruling in In the Matter of Lighthouse Pointe Property Associates, LLC v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 2010 NY Slip Op 1377, 2010 N.Y. LEXIS 35, (Ct. App. Feb. 18, 2010), and the implications of that decision.
Court of Appeals’ Decision
First, the […]
On February 18, 2010, New York’s highest court overturned the DEC’s denial of an upstate New York development’s application for admission into the State’s Brownfield Cleanup Program (”BCP” or “Program”). In the Matter of Lighthouse Pointe Property Associates, LLC v.
The latest installment in the Brownfields Cleanup Program (BCP) eligibility saga involves a recent October 2008 case from the Supreme Court in New York County, East River Realty Company, LLC v. NYSDEC, __ N.Y.S.2d ___, 2008 WL 4694535 (Sup.Ct. New York Cty. 2008), holding that DEC cannot use a “but-for” test when determining whether
In following our previous post concerning judicial review of DEC decisions to deny proposed developments entry into the Brownfield Cleanup Program, we discuss the New York County Supreme Court decision of
As noted in our previous post, in passing the recent Brownfield Cleanup Program Reform Legislation, the legislature did not amend the program’s eligibility requirements. As previously discussed, NYSDEC has narrowly construed the Act’s eligibility provisions and New York courts have been loath to overrule a NYSDEC decision of non-eligibility. (See our prior post, dated […]
In our most recent post, we discussed the change in the credits allowed to brownfield developers under the new statute. We now turn our attention to monitoring requirements and the reporting thereof, and other aspects of the new law.
On July 23, 2008, Governor David Paterson signed Brownfield Reform Legislation to amend New York State’s taxation and environmental conservation laws. These amendments seek to remedy previous problems with the State’s law concerning the redevelopment tax credits allowed under the program, and to create oversight programs to monitor the program […]
In 2003, the New York Legislature passed the Brownfield Cleanup Program, ECL § 27-1401 et seq. The benefits of the Brownfield Cleanup Program (“BCP”) are many: the developer receives a liability release from the State following DEC oversight during the cleanup of the property. The most coveted benefit, however, is a tax credit of up […]
