NY State Senate Bill 2021-S8857A

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Apr 26, 2022	print number 8857a
Apr 26, 2022	amend and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions
Apr 25, 2022	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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2021-S8857 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9445
Current Committee:: Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1196-b & 1196-d, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2023-2024: S4169, A4019
2025-2026: A4831

2021-S8857 - Summary

Enacts the water bill fairness act; authorizes local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff.

2021-S8857 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8857

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill. authorizes any water or sewer authority in New YorkState to
Charge fees for stormwater runoff.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one the short title.

Section two amends section 1196-b of the public authoritiesAew, the New
York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act, to define several terms
including "stormwater," 'green infrastructure," "MS4 compliance,"
"combined sewer system," "combined sewer overflow," and "stormwater
Management." The section also introduces a definition of a "stormwater

fee," which is described as a fee for the costs of stormwater manage-
ment, determined as a result of aproperty's impervious surface area in
relation to.its gross, area

Section two amends section 1196-d of the public authorities law to
provide any authority covered by the act the right to charge and collect
stormwater fees, and to credit rate-payers with discounts based on
behavior or improvements that mitigate or treat stormwater runoff.
Revenues from stormwater fees may only be used to recover the costs of
stormwater management programs in the district, and a specific propor-
tion of revenue is to be dedicated to green infrastructure. The authori-
ty is also granted the right to exempt agricultural and horticultural
properties and to create discounts on the basis of income. Stormwater
fees in place before April 1,.2022 are exempt from the requirements of
the bill.

Section three is the effective date.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION:

The amended version makes various technical changes to strengthen the
bill.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Stormwater runoff is defined as the flow of water on the ground surface
when excess rain or meltwater can no longer infiltrate the soil and
begins to accumulate. Also known as surface runoff, it is a natural part
of the water cycle. High volumes of surface runoff cause flooding.
unfortunately, a combination of climate change, increased strain on
aging sewer infrastructure, and the growth of impervious areas such as
pavement have increased the frequency of floods and sewer overflows in
New York's communities after heavy rainfall. Sewer overflows and floods
pose grave environmental, social, and economic concerns and have under-
scored the need for stormwater infrastructure and more "green infras-
tructure" to help absorb, treat, harvest, or, divert excess stormwater
in urban areas.
Naturally, some properties contribute more to flooding than others.  Yet
water and sewer authorities are typically financed by metered potable
water usage. In other words, the costs of stormwater management are
baked into water bills. This creates a mismatch between the financial
burden borne by some ratepayers and their actual contribution to flood-
ing or use of the sewer system. For example, a parking lot contributes
.Aore to stormwater runoff than a residential home becauSe of the park-
ing 'lot's large, paved surface.  But because the residence consumes
more potable water than parking lot, the residence will pay significant-
ly more for stormwater management than the parking lot owner. By decou-
pling the costs of stormwater management from water usage, the imposi-
tion of stormwater runoff fees cures this imbalance by ensuring that
properties with large impervious areas but little potable water usage
also pay òtheir fair share to maintain sewer systems and stormwater
infrastructure. By creating credits for property owners who install
green infrastructure, stormwater fees also create a financial incentive
to further reduce stormwater runoff on private property.  Stormwater
fees make water bills fairer by equitably distributing the costs of
stormwater management.

Stormwater fees are already in place in approximately 800 other local
governments around the country, including large cities such as Baltimore
and Philadelphia. This legislation does not require stormwater fees or
specify how much they should cost, but instead simply authorizes water
and sewer authorities to impose such fees by clarifying the statutory
authority to do so, including the authority to create credits for green
infrastructure, to create discounts on the basis of income, and to
create differential rates based on property classification. The bill
exempts existing stormwater fees, such as Ithaca's, from the framework
of the statute. Because various stormwater management programs are
already required pursuant to state and federal laws and regulations,
including the Clean Water Act and Water Pollution Control Act, the bill
seeks to define the relevant terms in harmony with existing legal
requirements.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S8857 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8857
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
   local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 1196-b of the public authorities law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
   22. "SURFACE RUNOFF CHARGE" SHALL MEAN THE IMPOSITION OF A FEE,  RATE,
 RENT  OR OTHER SERVICE CHARGE FOR THE USE OF, OR SERVICES FURNISHED BY A
 SEWERAGE FACILITY, SEWERAGE SYSTEM, OR BOTH, AS THE CASE MAY BE,  EITHER
 IN  A MINIMUM AMOUNT OR IN AN AMOUNT DETERMINED AS A FUNCTION OF (A) THE
 GROSS AREA OF THE REAL PROPERTY AND (B) THE IMPERVIOUS AREA OF THE PROP-
 ERTY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  SUBDIVISION,  "IMPERVIOUS  AREA  OF  THE
 PROPERTY"  SHALL MEAN THE AREA OF THE REAL PROPERTY THAT RESTRICTS WATER
 ABSORPTION.
   § 2. Subdivisions 22 and 23 of section 1196-d of the  public  authori-
 ties  law,  as  added by chapter 510 of the laws of 1984, are amended to
 read as follows:
   22. To provide for the discontinuance or disconnection of  the  supply
 of  water or the provision of sewerage service, or both, as the case may
 be, for non-payment of fees, rates,  rents  or  other  charges  therefor
 imposed  by the authority, provided such discontinuance or disconnection
 of any supply of water or the provision of sewerage service, or both, as
 the case may be, shall not be carried out except in the manner and  upon
 the notice as is required of a waterworks corporation pursuant to subdi-
 visions  three-a,  three-b  and  three-c  of  section  eighty-nine-b and
 section one hundred sixteen of the public service law; [and]
   23. TO DEVELOP A POLICY FOR THE COLLECTION OF SURFACE RUNOFF  CHARGES,
 AND  TO  CREATE CREDITS THAT MAY BE APPLIED THERETO BASED ON BEHAVIOR OR
 IMPROVEMENTS THAT ABSORB, DETAIN, OR RETAIN WATER AND THEREBY REDUCE THE
 USAGE OF SEWERAGE FACILITIES OR  SEWERAGE  SYSTEMS;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,
 THAT  NO  LESS  THAN  HALF  OF  THE REVENUES FROM THE COLLECTION OF SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14591-02-2
 S. 8857                             2
 
 CHARGES BY AN AUTHORITY  SHALL  BE  RESERVED,  ALLOCATED,  OR  DISBURSED
 PURSUANT  TO  AN  AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  THE AUTHORITY AND A PUBLIC BENEFIT
 CORPORATION, STATE AGENCY, MUNICIPALITY, GOVERNING BODY, OR OTHER  SUIT-
 ABLE  PUBLIC  ENTITY  FOR  THE PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, OR MAINTENANCE OF
 CLIMATE  RESILIENCY,  STORMWATER  MANAGEMENT,  OR  GREEN  INFRASTRUCTURE
 PROJECTS  WITHIN  THE  DISTRICT.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,
 "GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE" SHALL MEAN THE RANGE OF  PUBLICLY-OWNED  MEASURES
 THAT  USE  PLANT  OR SOIL SYSTEMS, PERMEABLE PAVEMENT OR OTHER PERMEABLE
 SURFACES OR SUBSTRATES, STORMWATER HARVEST OR REUSE, CIVIL  ENGINEERING,
 OR  LANDSCAPING  TO STORE, INFILTRATE OR EVAPOTRANSPIRATE STORMWATER AND
 REDUCE FLOWS TO SEWERAGE SYSTEMS, SEWERAGE  FACILITIES,  OR  TO  SURFACE
 WATERS; AND
   24.  To  do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
 its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in this title.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2021-S8857A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9445
Current Committee:: Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1196-b & 1196-d, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2023-2024: S4169, A4019
2025-2026: A4831

2021-S8857A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the water bill fairness act; authorizes local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff.

2021-S8857A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8857A

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill authorizes any water or sewer authority in New York State to
Charge fees for stormwater runoff.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one the short title.

Section two amends section 1196-b of the public authoritiesAew, the New
York State Local Water and Sewer Authority Act, to define several terms
including "stormwater," 'green infrastructure," "MS4 compliance,"
"combined sewer system," "combined sewer overflow," and "stormwater
Management." The section also introduces a definition of a "stormwater

fee," which is described as a fee for the costs of stormwater manage-
ment, determined as a result of aproperty's impervious surface area in
relation to its gross, area

Section two amends section 1196-d of the public authorities law to
provide any authority covered by the act the right to charge and collect
stormwater fees, and to credit rate-payers with discounts based on
behavior or improvements that mitigate or treat stormwater runoff.
Revenues from stormwater fees may only be used to recover the costs of
stormwater management programs in the district, and a specific propor-
tion of revenue is to be dedicated to green infrastructure. The authori-
ty is also granted the right to exempt agricultural and horticultural
properties and to create discounts on the basis of income. Stormwater
fees in place before April 1,.2022 are exempt from the requirements of
the bill.

Section three is the effective date.

 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION:

The amended version makes various technical changes to strengthen the
bill.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Stormwater runoff is defined as the flow of water on the ground surface
when excess rain or meltwater can no longer infiltrate the soil and
begins to accumulate. Also known as surface runoff, it is a natural part
of the water cycle. High volumes of surface runoff cause flooding,
unfortunately, a combination of climate change, increased strain on
aging sewer infrastructure, and the growth of impervious areas such as
pavement have increased the frequency of floods and sewer overflows in
New York's communities after heavy rainfall. Sewer overflows and floods
pose grave environmental, social, and economic concerns and have under-
scored the need for stormwater infrastructure and more "green infras-
tructure" to help abtorb, treat, harvest, or, divert excess stormwater
in urban areas.
Naturally, some properties contribute more to flooding than others.  Yet
water and sewer authorities are typically financed by metered potable
water usage. In other words, the costs of stormwater management are
baked into water bills. This creates a mismatch between the financial
burden borne by some ratepayers and their actual contribution to flood-
ing or use of the sewer system. For example, a parking lot contributes
Aare to stormwater runoff than a residential home becauSe of the parking
'lot's large, paved surface.  But because the residence consumes more
potable water than parking lot, the residence will pay significantly
more for stormwater management than the parking lot owner. By decoupling
the costs of stormwater management from water usage, the imposition of
stormwater runoff fees cures this imbalance by ensuring that properties
with large impervious areas but little potable water usage also pay
òtheir fair share to maintain sewer systems and stormwater infrastruc-
ture.  By creating credits for property owners who install green infras-
tructure, stormwater fees also create a financial incentive to further
reduce stormwater runoff on private property. Stormwater fees make water
bills fairer by equitably distributing the costs of stormwater manage-
ment.

Stormwater fees are already in place in approximately 800 other local
governments around the country, including large cities such as Baltimore
and Philadelphia. This legislation does not require stormwater fees or
specify how much they should cost, but instead simply authorizes water
and sewer authorities to impose such fees by clarifying the statutory
authority to do so, including the authority to create credits for green
infrastructure, to create discounts on the basis of income, and to
create differential rates based on property classification. The bill
exempts existing stormwater fees, such as Ithaca's, from the framework
of the statute. Because various stormwater management programs are
already required pursuant to state and federal laws and regulations,
including the Clean Water Act and Water Pollution Control Act, the bill
seeks to define the relevant terms in harmony with existing legal
requirements.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:

2021-S8857A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8857--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and   Commissions  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
   local water and sewerage authorities to charge fees for surface runoff
 
   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 "water bill fairness act".
   § 2. Section 1196-b of the public authorities law is amended by adding
 seven new subdivisions 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 to read as follows:
   22.  "STORMWATER"  SHALL  MEAN A FLOW OF WATER OCCURRING ON THE GROUND
 SURFACE WHEN RAIN OR MELTWATER CAN NO LONGER BE ABSORBED BY THE SOIL  OR
 GROUND SURFACE.
   23.  "GREEN  INFRASTRUCTURE" SHALL MEAN THE RANGE OF MEASURES THAT USE
 PLANT OR SOIL SYSTEMS, PERMEABLE PAVEMENT OR OTHER PERMEABLE SURFACES OR
 SUBSTRATES, STORMWATER HARVEST OR REUSE, OR LANDSCAPING TO STORE, INFIL-
 TRATE OR  EVAPOTRANSPIRATE  STORMWATER  AND  REDUCE  FLOWS  TO  SEWERAGE
 SYSTEMS, SEWERAGE FACILITIES, OR TO SURFACE WATERS.
   24.  "MS4 COMPLIANCE" SHALL MEAN EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN TO COMPLY WITH THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF  PERMITS  ISSUED  FOR  MUNICIPAL  SEPARATE  STORM  SEWER
 SYSTEMS PURSUANT TO ANY FEDERAL RULE OR REGULATION REQUIRED BY 31 U.S.C.
 SECTION  1342, INCLUDING 40 C.F.R. PARTS 9, 122, 123, AND 124 ("STORMWA-
 TER II") OR ANY SUCCESSOR REGULATION.
   25. "COMBINED SEWER SYSTEM" SHALL MEAN A SEWERAGE SYSTEM  OR  SEWERAGE
 FACILITY  OWNED  BY  THE  STATE, AUTHORITY, OR MUNICIPALITY THAT CONVEYS
 STORMWATER AND  SANITARY WASTEWATER FROM  RESIDENTIAL,  COMMERCIAL,  AND
 INDUSTRIAL SOURCES THROUGH A SINGLE-PIPE SYSTEM.
   26.  "COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW" SHALL MEAN THE DISCHARGE OF SEWAGE FROM
 A COMBINED SEWER SYSTEM AT A POINT IN SUCH SYSTEM BEFORE SUCH SEWAGE HAS
 REACHED A PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS, USUALLY CAUSED BY AN  INCREASE
 IN FLOW IN EXCESS OF DESIGN CAPACITY.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14591-07-2

 S. 8857--A                          2
 
   27.   "STORMWATER   MANAGEMENT"   SHALL  MEAN  THE  PLANNING,  DESIGN,
 CONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, ACQUISITION, OR OPERATION OF ANY
 PUBLIC SYSTEM OF PRACTICES OR INFRASTRUCTURE,  INCLUDING  GREEN  INFRAS-
 TRUCTURE, WHICH CONVEYS, TREATS, OR STORES STORMWATER, INDUCES GROUNDWA-
 TER  RECHARGE  OF  STORMWATER,  REDUCES  FLOODING  CAUSED BY STORMWATER,
 REDUCES THE DISCHARGE OF UNTREATED STORMWATER INTO  SURFACE  WATERS,  OR
 REDUCES  COMBINED  SEWER  OVERFLOWS  OR OTHER DELETERIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL,
 SOCIAL, OR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES CAUSED BY UNMANAGED STORMWATER  RUNOFF.
 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SHALL INCLUDE, WITHOUT LIMITATION: MS4 COMPLIANCE;
 ACTIONS  REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH A STATE POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION
 SYSTEM PERMIT ISSUED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SEVENTEEN OF THE  ENVIRONMENTAL
 CONSERVATION  LAW  AND  REASONABLY RELATED TO STORMWATER MANAGEMENT; THE
 DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MUNICIPAL STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
 OR STORMWATER CONTROL ORDINANCE; AND THE DEVELOPMENT AND  IMPLEMENTATION
 OF  A LONG-TERM CONTROL PLAN TO MITIGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS PURSU-
 ANT TO ANY FEDERAL OR STATE LAW, REGULATION, RULE,  PERMIT,  OR  CONSENT
 DECREE.
   28. "STORMWATER FEE" SHALL MEAN THE IMPOSITION OF A FEE, RATE, RENT OR
 OTHER  SERVICE  CHARGE  FOR  THE  COSTS  OF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, IN AN
 AMOUNT DETERMINED AS A FUNCTION OF (A) THE GROSS AREA OF THE REAL  PROP-
 ERTY  AND (B) THE IMPERVIOUS AREA OF THE PROPERTY, WHICH MAY BE ADJUSTED
 FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OR USE OF THE PROPERTY, AND WHICH SHALL BE A FAIR
 AND EQUITABLE APPROXIMATION OF THE REAL PROPERTY'S PROPORTIONAL CONTRIB-
 UTION TO STORMWATER  RUNOFF.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,
 "IMPERVIOUS  AREA OF THE PROPERTY" SHALL MEAN THE AREA OF THE REAL PROP-
 ERTY THAT RESTRICTS WATER ABSORPTION.
   § 3. Subdivisions 22 and 23 of section 1196-d of the  public  authori-
 ties  law,  as  added by chapter 510 of the laws of 1984, are amended to
 read as follows:
   22. To provide for the discontinuance or disconnection of  the  supply
 of  water or the provision of sewerage service, or both, as the case may
 be, for non-payment of fees, rates,  rents  or  other  charges  therefor
 imposed  by the authority, provided such discontinuance or disconnection
 of any supply of water or the provision of sewerage service, or both, as
 the case may be, shall not be carried out except in the manner and  upon
 the notice as is required of a waterworks corporation pursuant to subdi-
 visions  three-a,  three-b  and  three-c  of  section  eighty-nine-b and
 section one hundred sixteen of the public service law; [and]
   23. TO DEVELOP A POLICY FOR THE COLLECTION OF STORMWATER FEES, AND  TO
 CREATE CREDITS THAT MAY BE APPLIED THERETO BASED ON BEHAVIOR OR IMPROVE-
 MENTS THAT ABSORB, DETAIN, OR RETAIN STORMWATER.
   (A)  SEPARATE,  PARTIAL, AND NON-EXCLUSIVE CREDITS MAY BE CREATED FOR:
 (I) THE INSTALLATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF  CURRENT  STORMWATER
 BEST  MANAGEMENT  PRACTICES  THAT  REDUCE,  RETAIN,  OR TREAT STORMWATER
 ON-SITE AND WHICH ARE APPROVED BY THE COUNTY, MUNICIPALITY, OR  AUTHORI-
 TY;  (II)  THE INSTALLATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF GREEN INFRAS-
 TRUCTURE THAT REDUCES, RETAINS, OR TREATS STORMWATER ON-SITE  AND  WHICH
 IS  APPROVED  BY  THE  COUNTY,  MUNICIPALITY, OR AUTHORITY; OR (III) ANY
 COMBINATION OF SUBPARAGRAPHS (I) AND (II) OF THIS PARAGRAPH THAT EXCEEDS
 REQUIREMENTS THAT MAY BE APPLICABLE UNDER ANY LAW, RULE,  OR  REGULATION
 RELATED TO STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLANS, OR STORM-
 WATER CONTROL ORDINANCES.
   (B)  THE  AUTHORITY'S POLICY MAY EXEMPT CERTAIN HORTICULTURAL OR AGRI-
 CULTURAL PROPERTIES FROM SUCH FEES.
 S. 8857--A                          3
 
   (C) ANY POLICY FOR THE COLLECTION OF A STORMWATER FEE  IMPLEMENTED  BY
 AN  AUTHORITY OR MUNICIPALITY PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 TWO SHALL NOT NEED TO CONFORM TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (D) ALL OF THE REVENUES FROM THE COLLECTION OF SUCH FEES BY AN AUTHOR-
 ITY  SHALL BE RESERVED FOR STORMWATER MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE DISTRICT AND
 THE RECOVERY OF THE COSTS INCURRED BY THE AUTHORITY'S OR  MUNICIPALITY'S
 STORMWATER  MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE AUTHORITY'S
 POLICY SHALL SET  ASIDE  A  SPECIFIC  PROPORTION  OF  REVENUE  FROM  THE
 COLLECTION  OF SUCH FEES FOR THE PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE
 OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE.
   (E) THE AUTHORITY'S POLICY MAY DISCOUNT A STORMWATER FEE ON THE  BASIS
 OF INCOME; AND
   24.  To  do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
 its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in this title.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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