Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of education determines that space limitations are so severe that there is no other site to erect such new schoolhouse, and there are adequate engineering controls to address air quality; makes related provisions.

Statutes affected:
A8998: 408 education law, 2556 education law
A8998A: 408 education law, 2556 education law
A8998B: 408 education law, 2556 education law