Bill Text: NY A02600 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of the department of health to provide educational materials on the department's website concerning the state's public drinking water systems and to participate in the federal drinking water watch program.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-12 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A02600 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02600-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2600--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SEPULVEDA, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, MONTESANO, COOK,
          KAVANAGH,  FAHY,  LUPARDO,  GALEF,  GRAF,  McDONALD,  LAVINE,  CRESPO,
          COLTON, BLAKE, LIFTON, RICHARDSON, McLAUGHLIN, MURRAY, CAHILL, HOOPER,
          OTIS,  JEAN-PIERRE,  ABINANTI,  WILLIAMS,  DE LA ROSA,  D'URSO, ORTIZ,
          LAWRENCE, VANEL, GJONAJ, HARRIS, BARRON, LOPEZ,  SEAWRIGHT  --  Multi-
          Sponsored  by  --  M. of A.  GLICK, HYNDMAN, O'DONNELL, PERRY, RIVERA,
          SIMON, THIELE, WALKER -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from  said
          committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommit-
          ted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of  health to provide educational materials on the depart-
          ment's website concerning the state's public  drinking  water  systems
          and to participate in the federal water watch program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 1112 of the public health law,  as
     2  added  by  section  1  of  part  M of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    9. The commissioner shall work in consultation with  the  commissioner
     5  of  the  department of environmental conservation to develop educational
     6  materials, and may take into consideration recommendations of the drink-
     7  ing water quality council established pursuant to section eleven hundred
     8  thirteen of this title. Such educational materials shall be made  avail-
     9  able to the covered public water system and the general public , includ-
    10  ing  through  a  link  conspicuously  noted on the department's website,
    11  relating to methodologies for reducing exposure to emerging contaminants
    12  and potential actions that may be taken to mitigate or remediate  emerg-
    13  ing  contaminants.   Such link shall also include access to basic system
    14  information, including system  identification  number,  name  and  type;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01376-04-7

        A. 2600--B                          2
     1  department contacts; public notices; violations; and enforcement actions
     2  taken  by  the  state. The commissioner shall coordinate with the United
     3  States environmental protection agency to ensure  that  the  information
     4  available  may  be  accessed  through  the  United  States environmental
     5  protection agency's "Drinking Water  Watch"  website.  The  commissioner
     6  shall  also  provide  the  covered  public water system with information
     7  relating to potential funding sources provided by the state and  federal
     8  government  for  mitigation  or  remedial  activities, and to reduce the
     9  exposure to emerging contaminants.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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