Bill Text: NY S08170 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation, after consultation with the environmental facilities corporation and the department of state, to submit an annual agency stormwater expenditure report containing a comprehensive estimate and summary of funds needed and funds spent on stormwater projects under the department of environmental conservation, the environmental facilities corporation, the department of state and other applicable agencies or state authorities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-02-13 - referred to environmental conservation [S08170 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08170-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8170

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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,  in  relation  to
          requiring  the department of environmental conservation, after consul-
          tation with the environmental facilities corporation and department of
          state, to submit an annual agency stormwater expenditure report

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

     1    Section  1.    Sections  16-0101  through 16-0119 of article 16 of the
     2  environmental conservation law are designated title 1, and a  new  title
     3  heading is added to read as follows:
     4             STATE PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL FLOOD CONTROL PROGRAM
     5    §  2.  Article  16 of the environmental conservation law is amended by
     6  adding a new title 3 to read as follows:
     7                                    TITLE 3
     8                        STATE STORMWATER FLOOD CONTROL
     9  Section 16-0301. Agency stormwater expenditure reporting.
    10  § 16-0301. Agency stormwater expenditure reporting.
    11    1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms
    12  shall have the following meanings:
    13    (a)  "Agency"  means  any department, board, bureau, commission, divi-
    14  sion, office, or committee of the state, or state authority.
    15    (b) "State authority" shall mean a public authority or public  benefit
    16  corporation  created by or existing under the public authorities law, or
    17  any other law of the state of New York, with one or more of its  members
    18  appointed by the governor or who serve as members by virtue of holding a
    19  civil  office  of  the  state, other than an interstate or international
    20  authority or public benefit corporation, including subsidiaries of  such
    21  public authority or public benefit corporation.
    22    (c)  "Stormwater  funding"  means  all  spending by the state on water
    23  infrastructure projects intended to reduce or mitigate flooding  in  the
    24  state.
    25    2. Annual agency stormwater expenditure report.  The department, after
    26  consultation  with the environmental facilities corporation, the depart-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00524-11-4
        S. 8170                             2

     1  ment of state, and any other applicable agency or state authority, shall
     2  submit to the temporary president of the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the
     3  assembly,  the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of
     4  the  assembly,  as  early as practicable, but no later than the first of
     5  July of the year following the effective date of this section, an annual
     6  agency stormwater  expenditure  report.  Such  report  shall  contain  a
     7  comprehensive  estimate  and  summary  of  stormwater  funding under the
     8  department, the environmental facilities corporation, the department  of
     9  state  and other applicable agencies or state authorities, including, at
    10  minimum:
    11    (a) amounts spent in the prior fiscal year; and
    12    (b) recommendations regarding future stormwater  funding.  Recommenda-
    13  tions shall:
    14    (i)  be  based on an analysis which takes into consideration a variety
    15  of factors including, but not limited to, project type, source of funds,
    16  watersheds of particular concern, benefit-cost ratios, prioritization of
    17  nature-based solutions where suitable, project pipeline, and recommenda-
    18  tions of the Upstate Flood Mitigation  Task  Force  and  other  relevant
    19  initiatives; and
    20    (ii) identify any programmatic or administrative challenges, establish
    21  state-wide  objectives  for  stormwater infrastructure improvements, and
    22  estimate what future funding increases may be  necessary  to  meet  such
    23  objectives, with relevant detail.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of February next succeed-
    25  ing the year in which it shall have become a law.