Bill > S09235

This bill amends the Environmental Conservation Law to establish a random selection process for issuing certain commercial fishing licenses and permits when the number of applications exceeds the available licenses or permits. For commercial food fish licenses, commercial crab permits, commercial whelk or conch permits, and marine and coastal district party and charter boat licenses, the Department of Environmental Conservation will randomly select recipients from among the applications received by the first business day of the applicable year, with applicants receiving an extra entry for each previous year they applied but were not selected. The bill also authorizes the Department to adopt regulations to amend or supplement the process for issuing these licenses and permits. Additionally, the bill allows for temporary emergency authorizations for licensees or permittees to have someone temporarily undertake licensed activities on their behalf.