Bill Text: NY S03995 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3995 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the reissuance of permits for inactive wells that access a sole source aquifer in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03995 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03995-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3995
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. PHILLIPS -- 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, in relation  to  the
          operation of certain inactive wells
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 15-1527 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  In  any  county  with  two  million or more residents, any permits
     4  issued by the department for public supply wells accessing a sole source
     5  aquifer shall be deemed invalid if the public supply well has  not  been
     6  used  for  the  withdrawal and public supply of water for over two years
     7  and such well or wells shall be deemed abandoned. Prior to  the  reissu-
     8  ance  or renewal of any such permit for water withdrawal, the department
     9  shall commence a full  review  under  the  state  environmental  quality
    10  review  act.  Any  such  permit  which  has not been renewed or reissued
    11  subsequent to such review shall be deemed  invalid  upon  the  effective
    12  date  of  the  chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen which added
    13  this subdivision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
    15  such  public  supply  well that has not been used for the withdrawal and
    16  public supply of water for over two years on the effective date of  this
    17  act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09584-01-7