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A08807 Summary:

BILL NO	A08807
SAME AS	SAME AS S08241-A
SPONSOR	Kassay
COSPNSR	Schiavoni, Lavine, Simone, Rajkumar, Rosenthal, Santabarbara, Paulin, Stern, Slater, Bendett, Otis, McMahon
MLTSPNSR
Amd §1285-u, Pub Auth L
Provides reimbursement for enhanced septic system projects and defines what qualifies as an enhanced septic system project.

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A08807 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8807
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 9, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- (at request of the Environmental Facil-
          ities Corporation) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Envi-
          ronmental Conservation
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public authorities law, in relation to the septic
          system replacement fund
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.    Paragraphs  (c),  (d),  (e) and (f) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 1285-u of the public authorities law, are relettered  paragraphs
     3  (d),  (e),  (f)  and  (g)  and  a  new paragraph (c) is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (c) "Enhanced septic system project"  means  an  onsite  decentralized
     6  wastewater  treatment  system(s)  that  (i) at a minimum, is designed to
     7  reduce total nitrogen in treated effluent to 19  mg/l  or  (ii)  signif-
     8  icantly  and  quantifiably  reduces  environmental  and/or public health
     9  impacts  associated  with  phosphorous  or  per-   and   polyfluoroalkyl
    10  substances  and  associated  compounds  in  effluent  from a cesspool or
    11  septic system.
    12    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 1285-u  of  the  public
    13  authorities  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  363 of the laws of 2017, is
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    (a) There is hereby created the state septic system replacement  fund,
    16  which  shall  be  administered  by the corporation to reimburse property
    17  owners or at the written request of a property owner, the septic  system
    18  installer  contracted by the property owner, for up to (i) fifty percent
    19  of the eligible costs incurred  for  eligible  septic  system  projects,
    20  provided  that no property owner shall be reimbursed more than ten thou-
    21  sand dollars and no septic system installer may be reimbursed more  than
    22  ten  thousand  dollars  per property for such projects; or (ii) seventy-
    23  five percent of the eligible costs incurred for enhanced  septic  system
    24  projects,  provided that no property owner shall be reimbursed more than
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10327-05-5
        A. 8807                             2
 
     1  twenty-five thousand dollars and no enhanced septic system installer may
     2  be reimbursed more than twenty-five thousand dollars  per  property  for
     3  such projects.
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     5  enhanced septic system projects for which a property owner has signed  a
     6  participation  agreement  with  a  participating county on or after such
     7  date.

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