Bill Text: NY S05728 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates a program to assist municipalities with water quality improvement of water bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-08 - referred to environmental conservation [S05728 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05728-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5728--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 15, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
          tee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          creating a program to assist local municipalities with  water  quality
          improvement of water bodies managed by lake associations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 15-0519 to read as follows:
     3  § 15-0519. Water quality improvement; lake associations.
     4    1. Subject to an appropriation for such purpose, the department shall,
     5  in  consultation with the environmental facilities corporation, create a
     6  program to assist municipalities to improve the water quality  in  water
     7  bodies  managed  by  lake associations located within such municipality.
     8  The program shall, in cooperation with municipalities at the request  of
     9  the lake association:
    10    a.  identify  any  water quality concerns at a water body managed by a
    11  lake association within the municipality;
    12    b. determine the most effective way to  remediate  any  water  quality
    13  concerns; and
    14    c.  assist  with  determining  best  practices to improve and maintain
    15  water quality of water bodies managed by lake  associations  within  the
    16  municipality.
    17    2.  The  department  shall establish a grant program to assist munici-
    18  palities with remedial actions to address the  water  quality  of  water
    19  bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.
    20    3. The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to
    21  implement this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06994-03-3
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     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     2  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     3  ment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary to  implement
     4  the  provisions  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be
     5  made and completed on or before such effective date.