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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the general municipal law, in
   relation to requiring highway projects that receive state  funding  to
   include  the  assessment  and  completion  of any water infrastructure
   repairs and providing for access to such water infrastructure
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
 23 to read as follows:
   § 23. WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT AND REPAIR FOR  CERTAIN  HIGHWAY
 PROJECTS.    NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY
 HIGHWAY PROJECT WHICH RECEIVES STATE FUNDING SHALL INCLUDE AN ASSESSMENT
 AND COMPLETION OF ANY WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN NEED OF REPAIR IMMEDIATELY
 OR WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE
 TERM  "WATER  INFRASTRUCTURE"  SHALL  BE  DEEMED TO INCLUDE ANY PIPES OR
 OTHER CONDUITS FOR DRINKING WATER, WASTEWATER AND STORM WATER.
   § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
 120-y to read as follows:
   § 120-Y.  WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ASSESSMENT AND REPAIR.  MUNICIPALITIES,
 IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, SHALL ENSURE THAT
 ACCESS IS GRANTED TO ANY WATER PIPE OR CONDUIT INSTALLED PURSUANT TO THE
 PROVISIONS OF SECTION TWENTY-THREE OF THE TRANSPORTATION LAW.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04384-01-3