2010 New York Code
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 8 - (8-0101 - 8-0117) ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW
8-0117 - Phased implementation.

§ 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:
    (a)  With  respect  to actions included within subdivision one of this
  section, no later than August 1, 1976.
    (b) With respect to actions included within subdivision  two  of  this
  section, no later than April 1, 1977.
    (c)  With respect to actions included within subdivision three of this
  section, no later than July 1, 1977.
    (d) With respect to actions included within subdivision four  of  this
  section, no later than November 1, 1978.
    Any  agency  which  has  not  adopted  and  published  the  additional
  necessary procedures described in subdivisions two and three of  section
  8-0113  of this article according to the dates set forth in this section
  shall  utilize  those  procedures  found  in  Part  617  of  title   six
  (environmental  conservation)  of the official compilation of the codes,
  rules and  regulations  of  the  state  of  New  York  for  purposes  of

implementing this article until such time as such agency has adopted and
  published its own procedures.