Bill Text: NY S07297 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "private well testing act"; authorizes the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water from privately owned wells.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-13 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S07297 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07297-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7297 IN SENATE April 13, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, the public health law and the real property law, in relation to enacting the "private well testing act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "private well testing act". 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation 4 law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 1 of the laws of 2003, 5 is amended to read as follows: 6 1. The department shall create or modify an existing geographic infor- 7 mation system, and maintain such system for purposes including, but not 8 limited to, incorporating information from remedial programs under its 9 jurisdiction, and shall also incorporate information from the source 10 water assessment program collected by the department of health, informa- 11 tion collected pursuant to section eleven hundred ten of the public 12 health law, data from annual water supply statements prepared pursuant 13 to section eleven hundred fifty-one of the public health law, informa- 14 tion from the database pursuant to title fourteen of article twenty-sev- 15 en of this chapter, and any other existing data regarding soil and 16 groundwater contamination currently gathered by the department, as well 17 as data on contamination that is readily available from the United 18 States geological survey and other sources determined appropriate by the 19 department. 20 § 3. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 21 subdivision 30 to read as follows: 22 30. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules 23 and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water 24 from privately owned wells. Such standards shall apply to any water 25 wells subject to subdivision eighteen of this section, as added by chap- 26 ter three hundred ninety-five of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06058-03-6
