Bill Text: NY A06056 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a program to assist municipalities with water quality improvement of water bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A06056 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6056

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          creating  a  program to assist local municipalities with water quality
          improvement of water bodies managed by lake associations

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

     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 15-0519 to read as follows:
     3  § 15-0519. Water quality improvement; lake associations.
     4    1. Subject to an appropriation for such purpose, the department shall,
     5  in consultation with the environmental facilities corporation, create  a
     6  program  to  assist municipalities to improve the water quality in water
     7  bodies managed by lake associations located  within  such  municipality.
     8  The program shall, in cooperation with municipalities:
     9    a.  identify  any  water quality concerns at a water body managed by a
    10  lake association within the municipality;
    11    b. determine the most effective way to  remediate  any  water  quality
    12  concerns; and
    13    c.  assist  with  determining  best  practices to improve and maintain
    14  water quality of water bodies managed by lake  associations  within  the
    15  municipality.
    16    2.  The  department  shall establish a grant program to assist munici-
    17  palities with remedial actions to address the  water  quality  of  water
    18  bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.
    19    3. The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to
    20  implement this section.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    22  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    23  ment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary to  implement
    24  the  provisions  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be
    25  made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06994-02-3