New York Consolidated Laws, Environmental Conservation Law - ENV § 8-0117. Phased implementation

1. With respect to the actions directly undertaken by any state agency, the requirement of an environmental impact statement pursuant to subdivision two of section 8-0109 of this article shall take effect on the first day of September, nineteen hundred seventy-six.

2. With respect to actions or classes of actions identified by the department as likely to require preparation of environmental impact statements pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of section 8-0113 of this article directly undertaken by any local agency, whether or not such actions are supported in whole or in part through contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding assistance from one or more state agency;  and all other actions or classes of actions identified by the department as likely to require preparation of environmental impact statements pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of section 8-0113 of this article supported in whole or in part through contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding assistance from one or more state agency, the requirement of an environmental impact statement pursuant to subdivision two of section 8-0109 of this article shall take effect on the first day of June, nineteen hundred seventy-seven.

3. With respect to actions or classes of actions identified by the department as likely to require preparation of environmental impact statements pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of section 8-0113 of this article supported in whole or in part through contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding assistance from one or more local agency;  and with respect to actions or classes of actions identified by the department as likely to require preparation of environmental impact statements pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of section 8-0113 of this article involving the issuance to a person of a lease, permit, certificate or other entitlement for use or permission to act by one or more state or local agency, the requirement of an environmental impact statement pursuant to subdivision two of section 8-0109 of this article shall take effect on the first day of September, nineteen hundred seventy-seven.

4. With respect to all other actions not included in subdivision two or three of this section which are subject to this article, the requirement of an environmental impact statement pursuant to subdivision two of section 8-0109 of this article shall take effect on the first day of November, nineteen hundred seventy-eight.

5. Agencies subject to this article shall adopt and publish the additional necessary procedures described in subdivision three of section 8-0113 of this article, as follows: