Assembly Bill A8993

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the Suffolk county water quality restoration act

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  • 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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2023-A8993 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8473
Law Section:
County Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Part TT §2, Chap 58 of 2023; amd §256-b, County L; amd §1210-A, Tax L

2023-A8993 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends provisions of the Suffolk county water quality restoration act relating to the expenditure of funds for certain water projects.

2023-A8993 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8993
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the county law, the tax law and the Suffolk county water
   quality  restoration  act,  in  relation to the use of moneys from the
   water quality restoration fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  2  of  part TT of chapter 58 of the laws of 2023
 constituting the  Suffolk  county  water  quality  restoration  act,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   §  2.  Legislative  intent.  The  county of Suffolk ("county"), with a
 population of one million five hundred thousand persons, has  in  excess
 of  three  hundred  eighty  thousand existing onsite wastewater disposal
 systems, comprised mostly of cesspools  and  septic  systems,  with  two
 hundred  nine thousand of these onsite systems in environmentally sensi-
 tive areas which could benefit from nitrogen-reducing technologies.  The
 United  States Environmental Protection Agency recognizes Long Island as
 having a sole source aquifer  system  for  its  drinking  water  supply.
 Suffolk  county  has  an  imminent  need to preserve this valuable water
 resource by reducing the amount of nitrogen discharged into the  ground-
 water  by onsite systems. The full water cycle is impacted by increasing
 quantities of nutrients, pathogens, pesticides, volatile organic contam-
 inants and saltwater intrusion, as well as a number of emerging  threats
 such as prescription drugs and sea level rise.
   The Suffolk county subwatersheds wastewater plan ("SWP"), certified by
 the   department  of  environmental  conservation  as  a  Nine  Elements
 Watershed (9E) plan, has documented  the  devastating  effects  of  high
 levels  of  nitrogen  pollution, not only on the drinking water quality,
 but  also  on  coastal  ecosystems,  dissolved  oxygen,  water  clarity,
 eelgrass,  wetlands,  shellfish,  coastal  resilience  and in triggering
 harmful algal blooms. The SWP is a long-term plan to  address  the  need
 for wastewater treatment infrastructure throughout the county comprehen-
 sively  over  a period of fifty years. The SWP delineates the source and
 concentration of nitrogen loading  in  one  hundred  ninety-one  subwat-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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