STATE OF NEW YORK
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1733
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, HELMING, MAY, MAYER, ROLISON -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
creating a program to assist local municipalities with water quality
improvement of water bodies managed by lake associations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 15-0519 to read as follows:
3 § 15-0519. Water quality improvement; lake associations.
4 1. Subject to an appropriation for such purpose, the department shall,
5 in consultation with the environmental facilities corporation, create a
6 program to assist municipalities to improve the water quality in water
7 bodies managed by lake associations located within such municipality.
8 The program shall, in cooperation with municipalities at the request of
9 the lake association:
10 a. identify any water quality concerns at a water body managed by a
11 lake association within the municipality;
12 b. determine the most effective way to remediate any water quality
13 concerns; and
14 c. assist with determining best practices to improve and maintain
15 water quality of water bodies managed by lake associations within the
16 municipality.
17 2. The department shall establish a grant program to assist munici-
18 palities with remedial actions to address the water quality of water
19 bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.
20 3. The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to
21 implement this section.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
23 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
24 ment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary to implement
25 the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized to be
26 made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05488-01-5
