Assembly Bill A1040

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Enacts the "private well testing act"

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Archive: Last 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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2013-A1040 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0315, En Con L; amd §§206 & 1100, add §1110, Pub Health L; add §468, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4557
2011-2012: A667
2015-2016: A2295
2017-2018: A265
2019-2020: A1103

2013-A1040 (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.

2013-A1040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1040

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JAFFEE,  SWEENEY,  COOK, SCHIMEL, ROSENTHAL,
  ABINANTI, WEISENBERG, STEVENSON -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.
  BOYLAND,  CLARK,  DINOWITZ, FARRELL, GALEF, O'DONNELL, PEOPLES-STOKES,
  PERRY -- read once and referred  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".
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
law,  as  added by section 1 of part C of chapter 1 of the laws of 2003,
is amended to read as follows:
  1. The department shall create or modify an existing geographic infor-
mation system, and maintain such system for purposes including, but  not
limited  to,  incorporating information from remedial programs under its
jurisdiction, and shall also incorporate  information  from  the  source
water assessment program collected by the department of health, INFORMA-
TION  COLLECTED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  ELEVEN HUNDRED TEN OF THE PUBLIC
HEALTH LAW, data from annual water supply statements  prepared  pursuant
to  section  eleven hundred fifty-one of the public health law, informa-
tion from the database pursuant to title fourteen of article twenty-sev-
en 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 appropriate by the
department.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02602-01-3
              

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