Senate Bill S1475

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a demonstration program for private well water testing requirements for the sale of real property in certain counties

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S1475 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0315, En Con L; add §§1110 & 1110-a, Pub Health L; add §468, amd §462, RP L; add §606-a, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S2198

2009-S1475 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a demonstration program for private well water testing requirements for the sale of real property in certain counties.

2009-S1475 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1475 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1475

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 2, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SALAND -- 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,  the  real  property law and the tax 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:

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
the "private well testing act".
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 1 of the laws  of  2003,
is amended to read as follows:
  1. The department shall create or modify an existing geographic infor-
mation  system, and maintain such system for purposes including, but not
limited to, incorporating information from remedial programs  under  its
jurisdiction,  and  shall  also  incorporate information from the source
water assessment program collected by the department of health, INFORMA-
TION COLLECTED PURSUANT  TO  SECTIONS  ELEVEN  HUNDRED  TEN  AND  ELEVEN
HUNDRED  TEN-A  OF  THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, data from annual water supply
statements prepared pursuant to section eleven hundred fifty-one of  the
public health law, information from the database pursuant to title four-
teen  of  article  twenty-seven  of this chapter, and any other existing
data regarding soil and groundwater contamination currently gathered  by
the  department, as well as data on contamination that is readily avail-
able from the United States geological survey and other  sources  deter-
mined appropriate by the department.
  S  3. The public health law is amended by adding two new sections 1110
and 1110-a to read as follows:
  S 1110. PRIVATE WELL TESTING. 1.  (A) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL  PROMULGATE
REGULATIONS WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07265-01-9

              

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