Senate Bill S1650

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the "private well testing act"

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Current 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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2023-S1650 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5979
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0315, En Con L; amd §§206 & 1100, add §1111, Pub Health L; add §468, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7297
2017-2018: S119
2019-2020: S1854
2021-2022: S48, A9533

2023-S1650 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S1650 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1650 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1650
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, COMRIE, KRUEGER, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA,
   SKOUFIS -- 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:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "private well testing act".
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
 law,  as  amended  by  section 12 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The department in conjunction with the commissioner of health shall
 create and maintain a geographic information system, and associated data
 storage and analytical systems for purposes of collecting, streamlining,
 and visualizing integrated  data,  permits,  and  relevant  sites  about
 drinking  water  quality  including,  but  not limited to, incorporating
 supply well and monitoring well data, emerging contaminant  data,  water
 quality  monitoring  data,  pertinent data from remediation and landfill
 sites, permitted discharge locations and other  potential  contamination
 risks  to water supplies. Such system shall also incorporate information
 from the source water assessment program collected by the department  of
 health,  INFORMATION COLLECTED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN
 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 fourteen  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 available
 from the United States geological survey and  other  sources  determined
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05414-01-3
              

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