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                                   8523
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2024
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to information on
   service lines to be reported by public water systems
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  1114-b  of  the public health law, as added by a
 chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law  relating  to
 enacting  the  lead  pipe  right to know act, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 5512 and A. 6115, is amended to read as follows:
   § 1114-b. Service line inventories and mapping. 1. Definitions.    For
 the purposes of this section:
   (a)  "Service  line"  means  any  piping  connecting a water main to a
 building inlet.
   (b) "Gooseneck, pigtail,  or  connector"  means  a  short  section  of
 piping, typically not exceeding two feet, which can be bent and used for
 connections  between  rigid portions of a service line, AS DEFINED IN 40
 CFR 141.2.
   (c) "Galvanized service line" means iron or steel piping that has been
 dipped in zinc to prevent corrosion and rusting.
   (d) "Covered public water system" means (i) a public water system that
 serves at least [five] FIFTEEN service connections  used  by  year-round
 residents or regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents;
 or (ii) a public water system that regularly serves at least twenty-five
 of  the  same  people, four hours or more per day, for four or more days
 per week, for twenty-six or more weeks per year.
   2. Each covered public water system shall submit a service line inven-
 tory, in a format to be developed by the department, that identifies the
 location, material composition, and other details of all  service  lines
 connected  to  its distribution system. Each covered public water system
 shall also submit an inventory summary form, in a format to be developed
 by the department, summarizing the data identified in the  service  line
 inventory.  [The]  NOTWITHSTANDING  SUBDIVISIONS  THREE AND FOUR OF THIS
 SECTION, THE development  of  service  line  inventories  and  inventory
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 summary  forms  shall comply with requirements promulgated by the United
 States environmental protection agency  [as  well  as  comply  with  the
 provisions of this section].
   3.  Each  service  line  [connected to a covered public water system's
 distribution system] shall be listed in service line  inventories.  Each
 covered  public  water  system  shall  include for each service line the
 information listed in this subdivision. [For some categories,  the]  THE
 covered public water system may mark "unknown" where documented evidence
 is not currently available:
   (a) street address;
   (b) town;
   (c) zip code;
   (d)  IF KNOWN, whether a gooseneck, pigtail, or connector made of lead
 is present;
   (e) IF KNOWN, the material composition of both the public portion  and
 customer portion of the service line;
   (f)  IF  KNOWN,  whether the public portion or customer portion of the
 service line was ever made of lead;
   (g) the verification method used to determine the material composition
 of both the public portion and customer portion of the service line;
   (h) IF KNOWN, the installation or replacement date of both the  public
 portion and customer portion of the service line;
   (i)  IF  KNOWN,  the  diameter of both the public portion and customer
 portion of the service line;
   (j) IF KNOWN, whether lead solder is present;
   (k) IF KNOWN, the building type; and
   (l) IF KNOWN, whether a point of  use  or  point  of  entry  treatment
 system is present.
   4.  Inventory  summary forms shall include, but not be limited to, the
 following information about each covered water system:
   (a) water system name and identification number;
   (b) contact information for the owner or licensed operator  of  record
 completing the form;
   (c) the total number of service lines in the distribution system;
   (d) the total number of lead service lines, including the total number
 of  lead  public  service  line  portions  and  the total number of lead
 customer service line portions;
   (e) the total number of galvanized service lines requiring replacement
 AS DEFINED IN 40 CFR 141.84, including the total  number  of  galvanized
 public  service line portions REQUIRING REPLACEMENT and the total number
 of galvanized customer service line portions REQUIRING REPLACEMENT;
   (f) the total number of non-lead service lines,  including  the  total
 number  of non-lead public service line portions and the total number of
 non-lead customer service line portions;
   (g) the total number of service lines of unknown  material,  including
 the  total  number of unknown public service line portions and the total
 number of unknown customer service line portions;
   (h) the total number of public service  line  portions  identified  by
 historical  records,  field  inspections,  customer  identification with
 photo or other  verification,  excavation,  sequential  sampling,  [and]
 statistical  analysis/predictive modeling, OR OTHER METHOD DETERMINED BY
 THE COVERED PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM  TO  ACCURATELY  IDENTIFY  SERVICE  LINE
 MATERIALS;
   (i)  the  total  number  of  customer  service  portions identified by
 historical records,  field  inspections,  customer  identification  with
 photo  or  other  verification,  excavation,  sequential  sampling,  and
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 statistical analysis/predictive modeling, OR OTHER METHOD DETERMINED  BY
 THE  COVERED  PUBLIC  WATER  SYSTEM  TO ACCURATELY IDENTIFY SERVICE LINE
 MATERIALS;
   (j) a description of how the service line inventory will be accessible
 to the public; and
   (k) a certification verifying the accuracy of the information.
   5. Each covered public water system shall electronically submit to the
 department  an  initial  service line inventory and an initial inventory
 summary form no later than October sixteenth, two thousand  twenty-four.
 The department may prescribe data management means and methods for elec-
 tronic  submissions  by  covered  public  water  systems  for uniformity
 purposes.
   6. Covered public water systems whose inventories contain any  service
 lines classified as lead, galvanized REQUIRING REPLACEMENT AS DEFINED IN
 40  CFR  141.84,  or unknown shall electronically submit updated service
 line inventories and inventory summary forms to the department at  least
 annually.  Updated  service line inventories and inventory summary forms
 shall reflect information gathered during any service line  replacements
 or  service  line  material  inspections  that  may have been conducted.
 Updated inventory summary forms shall additionally include:
   (a) a description detailing the steps being  taken  to  determine  the
 material composition of unknown service lines;
   (b)  the  total number of service lines classified as lead, galvanized
 REQUIRING REPLACEMENT, or unknown that were replaced over the course  of
 the previous year; and
   (c)  the total number of service lines classified as unknown that were
 determined to be lead, galvanized REQUIRING REPLACEMENT, or other  mate-
 rial over the course of the previous year.
   7.  Each  covered  public  water system which operates its own website
 shall make its most recent service line inventory and inventory  summary
 form available to the public on its website.
   8.  No  later  than  [thirty]  ONE HUNDRED TWENTY days after receiving
 initial and updated  service  line  inventories  and  inventory  summary
 forms,  the department shall make such inventories and inventory summary
 forms available to the public [on]  THROUGH  the  department's  website.
 Each  local health department shall include a link on its website to the
 website [operated] MAINTAINED by the department for hosting service line
 inventories and inventory summary forms.
   9. No later than [three hundred sixty days after]  October  sixteenth,
 two  thousand  [twenty-four]  TWENTY-SIX,  the department shall make the
 information from the service line inventories of  covered  public  water
 systems serving more than ten thousand people AND FEWER THAN TWO MILLION
 PEOPLE  available  to the public on the department's website in the form
 of an interactive map or  maps.  Such  interactive  map  or  maps  shall
 include, for each service line:
   (a)  material classification, including the material classification of
 both the public and customer portions of a service line;
   (b) street address; and
   (c) the verification method for the service line classification.
   10. The department's interactive map or maps shall  be  searchable  by
 address,  and color-coded where applicable to designate material classi-
 fication. The department's interactive map or maps shall be  updated  at
 least  annually,  in  conjunction with the submission of updated service
 line inventories by covered public water  systems.  The  department  may
 choose  not  to  create  an  interactive map when a covered public water
 system certifies that it maintains and updates its own interactive  map,
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 AND  SHALL  INCLUDE  A  LINK TO SUCH INTERACTIVE MAP ON THE DEPARTMENT'S
 WEBSITE.
   11.  The department shall adopt such rules and regulations as it deems
 necessary and proper to implement the provisions of this section.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law
 relating to enacting the lead pipe right to know  act,  as  proposed  in
 legislative bills numbers S. 5512 and A. 6115, takes effect.