Bill Text: NY S07641 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the canal corporation to create a chart to identify, map and model normal and flood water flows in the Oswego river basin and the Mohawk river basin and report on the completed chart by July 1, 2025; requires the updating of such chart every five years to account for any changes in the normal and flood water flows.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-12 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S07641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07641-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7641

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the canal law, in relation to directing the canal corpo-
          ration to create a chart to identify, map and model normal  and  flood
          water flows in the Oswego river basin and the Mohawk river basin

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

     1    Section 1. The canal law is amended by adding a  new  section  135  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 135. Upstate river basins chart. The canal corporation, in consulta-
     4  tion  with  the department of environmental conservation, shall, by June
     5  thirtieth, two thousand twenty-five, create a chart to identify, map and
     6  model normal and flood water flows in the Oswego  river  basin  and  the
     7  Mohawk  river  basin,  which  shall mean a watershed in the state of New
     8  York comprised of all rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, reservoirs and the
     9  surrounding land areas or other drainage, including but not  limited  to
    10  canals,  that drains or flows via the Oswego river into Lake Ontario and
    11  a watershed in the state of New York comprised of all  rivers,  streams,
    12  creeks, lakes, reservoirs and the surrounding land areas or other drain-
    13  age,  including  but not limited to canals, that drains or flows via the
    14  Mohawk river into the Hudson river, respectively.  The  chart  shall  be
    15  created  with  the  Hydrologic  Engineering Center River Analysis System
    16  (HEC-RAS), and bathymetric and/or light detection  and  ranging  (LiDAR)
    17  measurements,  as applicable. The chart shall, in addition to such other
    18  data as the canal corporation may determine to be included,  consist  of
    19  the  chart  as created and required by this section, together with other
    20  available data on basins, whether assisted by  the  state  of  New  York
    21  under  a provision of the laws of the state of New York, or assembled by
    22  federal or local governmental or private agencies,  all  of  which  such
    23  information shall be assembled and integrated, as applicable, into a map
    24  and  model  of the Oswego river basin and the Mohawk river basin.  Addi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11979-04-3
        S. 7641                             2

     1  tionally, the canal corporation shall update the chart every five  years
     2  and  shall  periodically review such chart to ensure that it effectuates
     3  the purposes of this section. As soon as practicable, the  canal  corpo-
     4  ration  shall  make the chart available to the public for inspection and
     5  examination at every division office of the canal corporation located in
     6  a county in which the Oswego river basin or the Mohawk  river  basin  is
     7  wholly or partially located in and on the corporation's website. Digital
     8  files  of  the  chart,  including  the map and model, shall also be made
     9  available, upon request, to the clerk of  each  county,  city,  town  or
    10  village  in  which the Oswego river basin or the Mohawk river basin or a
    11  portion thereof is located. The canal corporation shall, by July  first,
    12  two  thousand twenty-five, submit a report of the findings of the chart,
    13  including normal and flood flows, to the governor, the temporary  presi-
    14  dent  of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of
    15  the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.