2413 - Biennial report. - New York Statutes

§ 2413. Biennial report. The commissioner shall submit a report on or before January first commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and biennially thereafter, to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly concerning the operation of the health research science board. Such report shall include recommendations from the health research science board including, but not limited to, the types of data that would be useful for breast, prostate or testicular cancer researchers and whether private citizen use of residential pesticides should be added to the reporting requirements. The report shall also include a summary of research requests granted or denied. In addition, such report shall include an evaluation by the commissioner, the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation and the health research science board of the basis, efficiency and scientific utility of the information derived from pesticide reporting pursuant to sections 33-1205 and 33-1207 of the environmental conservation law and recommend whether such system should be modified or continued. The report shall include a summary of the comments and recommendations presented by the public at the board's public hearings.