STATE OF NEW YORK
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4408
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. VALESKY, ALCANTARA, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, HAMILTON,
KLEIN, PERALTA, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requests for tests
for water contaminants by small public water suppliers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 1111 to read as follows:
3 § 1111. Requests for tests for water contaminants by small public
4 water suppliers. 1. The department shall establish a list of contam-
5 inants consisting of the federally unregulated contaminants as desig-
6 nated pursuant to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. §
7 300g-1).
8 2. Any small public water supplier may request that its water supply
9 or source be tested for the list of contaminants set forth in subdivi-
10 sion one of this section by the department. Provided, however, that such
11 water supply or source is not currently being tested by the federal
12 environmental protection agency or any other federal agency or federal
13 department for such contaminants. Within ninety days of receipt of the
14 request, the department shall conduct such testing and provide the small
15 public water supplier with the results. The cost of such testing shall
16 be funded by the state. For the purposes of this section, a small public
17 water supplier shall be defined as a public water supplier which serves
18 ten thousand people or fewer.
19 3. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate
20 rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this section.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediately, the
23 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
24 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
25 to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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