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NY Env Conserv L § 15-0907 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 9 - Administrative Procedures for Article 15 15-0907 - Services of Notice, Order or Direction.

§ 15-0907. Services of notice, order or direction.Whenever  this  article  provides  for  or authorizes the service of a   notice, order or direction upon a licensee or applicant for  a  license,   or  upon  any  other  person,  and  does  not  provide for the manner of   service, and no different time is provided, such  service  may  be  made   either  personally or in the manner provided by law for the service of a   summons or by mailing a copy  of  the  same  by  registered  mail  in  a   postpaid  wrapper  addressed  to the licensee or applicant, or any other   person, at the address given  in  the  application  or  as  subsequently   communicated  to  the  department  in  writing, or at the project works.   Such service may be made upon a municipal corporation either  personally   as  above  provided  or  by  mailing  a  copy of the same in like manner   addressed to the mayor of the city or village or the supervisor  of  the   town.  Service  upon  unknown owners shall be made by publication in the   manner provided by law for service of a summons upon unknown parties.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-0909 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 9 - Administrative Procedures for Article 15 15-0909 - Payment of Costs.

§ 15-0909. Payment of costs.The expense of any hearing initiated by petition shall be certified by   the department to the person or public corporation filing such petition,   and  shall  be  paid  by  such  petitioner  within thirty days after the   receipt of the certificate.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1101 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 11 - Local and Regional Water Resources Planning and Development 15-1101 - Legislative Purposes.

§ 15-1101. Legislative purposes.In addition to the powers vested in the department by this article 15,   and  in  order  to  stimulate  and  encourage  local  participation  and   assistance,  comprehensive  planning  for   the   protection,   control,   conservation,  development  and  beneficial  utilization  of  the  water   resources of the state may be undertaken as provided in title 11 of this   article. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to  repeal,  amend  or   modify  the  powers  and  duties  of  the department as now or hereafter   provided by this article 15 or by any other statute  or  to  repeal  the   procedures authorized thereby.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1109 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 11 - Local and Regional Water Resources Planning and Development 15-1109 - Additional Powers and Duties of the Department.

§ 15-1109. Additional powers and duties of the department.1.  The  department  shall,  if appropriations are available therefor,   provide the board  with  such  office  space  and  equipment,  clerical,   technical,  scientific,  engineering,  legal  and  other  personnel  and   services as are reasonably necessary to assist the board in carrying out   its functions, and shall fix  the  compensation,  within  appropriations   available therefor, of such personnel. The department may enter into and   execute  contracts  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  by  law  for   technical,  scientific,  engineering  and  legal  services  to  be  made   available  for  the  board's  functions,  and may enter into cooperative   agreements  with  federal  agencies  for  research,  the  investigation,   collection,  compilation,  study and analysis of information and data on   the water resources  and  the  hydrology  of  the  state,  and  for  the   preparation and publication of reports thereon.2.  The  department  shall  cooperate  with the board and render to it   advisory and consultant services whenever practicable.3. The department shall  endeavor  to  coordinate  the  activities  of   existing  agencies  and  departments of the state charged with functions   involving waters and to secure their cooperation with and assistance for   the board in carrying out its  functions,  and  provide  the  means  for   coordination  of  the  studies  and  development  plans  of all regional   boards;4. The department shall keep  a  true  and  accurate  account  of  all   expenditures  incurred on behalf of the board including, but not limited   to, those incurred for all proceedings,  hearings  (except  the  hearing   required   by  section  15-1103),  notifications,  clerical,  technical,   engineering, legal and other services and expenses;5. The department shall, within a reasonable time after the  plan  has   been  approved or disapproved, submit an itemized statement of the costs   and expenses so incurred and expended to the  county  legislative  body.   Notice  shall be attached to such statement that, under title 11 of this   article, twenty-five per cent of the  cost  and  expenses  is  a  county   charge  which,  if  more than one county is involved, is to be equitably   apportioned among them; that the counties  may  by  agreement  determine   such  equitable  apportionment  within  sixty days from the date of such   notice, and, that in the failure  of  the  counties  so  to  agree,  the   department, on a specified date after such sixty day period has expired,   will  hear  the  counties at its office and proceed to make an equitable   apportionment of the county charge;6. The  department  shall  recommend  legislation  to  accomplish  and   further  the  planning and development program of the water resources of   the state.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1111 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 11 - Local and Regional Water Resources Planning and Development 15-1111 - Duties of County; County Charge; Counties Included Within a City.

§ 15-1111. Duties  of  county; county charge; counties included within acity.1. The county legislative body or bodies shall  comply  promptly  with   the  departments  request for lists of nominations for membership on the   board. The county or counties shall cooperate with and assist, so far as   is reasonable and practicable, the board in carrying out its functions.2. Of the  total  costs  and  expenses  incurred  by  the  department,   twenty-five  per  cent shall be a county charge and shall be audited and   paid as such in the manner prescribed by the county legislative body  or   bodies.  If  more  than  one county is included within the region of the   project, the county charge of twenty-five per cent  shall  be  equitably   apportioned  among  them,  consideration being given to, but not limited   to, prospective benefits to accrue to each in the event that the project   is undertaken. If the counties fail to agree within sixty days after the   statement of costs and expenses from the department  upon  an  equitable   apportionment  of  the  county  charge, the department after hearing the   counties, shall make such apportionment.3. With respect to any or all of the counties within the city  of  New   York,  except  as  provided  and  limited  by  subdivision  7 of section   15-1103:a. All rights, powers and  privileges  granted  to,  and  all  duties,   obligations  and  charges  imposed  upon any county by the provisions of   title 11 of this article, are granted to or imposed upon such city; andb. All rights, powers and privileges granted to the county legislative   body of any county by  the  provisions  of  title  11  of  this  article   (including,  but  not  limited  to the power to approve a petition for a   survey and study and establishment of a regional planning board) and all   duties and obligations imposed upon any such county legislative body  by   title  11  of  this article, are granted to or imposed upon the board of   estimate of such city.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1113 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 11 - Local and Regional Water Resources Planning and Development 15-1113 - Existing Rights and Remedies Preserved; Limitations.

§ 15-1113. Existing rights and remedies preserved; limitations.1.  Nothing  in  title  11  of this article is intended to or shall be   construed  to  alter,  impair,  diminish  or  enlarge  any  existing  or   hereafter acquired public or private right, riparian or otherwise, or to   create  any  new  public  or  private right, riparian or otherwise, with   reference to water resources and the use of the waters thereof and  such   rights  hereby  preserved  shall include, but not be limited to any such   right of the state or  any  agency  thereof  or  any  person  or  public   corporation.  Any reference in this section to a public or private right   with reference to water resources and the  use  of  the  waters  thereof   shall  include,  but  shall  not  be  limited  to, any right to receive,   collect, store, control, transmit, consume, supply, sell,  discharge  or   dispose  of water, any right to own, construct, operate and maintain any   water supply or water treatment facilities, including reservoirs,  dams,   aqueducts,  chlorinating  and  aeration plants and pumping stations, and   any right to  exercise  control  over  the  level,  flow,  discharge  or   disposition  of  waters,  including water in reservoirs, rivers, streams   and aqueducts.2. Nothing in title 11 of this article is intended to alter or abridge   any right of action or other remedy now or hereafter existing nor  shall   any  act  done  by  virtue  of  title 11 of this article be construed as   estopping the exercise of such rights.3. Nothing in title 11 of this article shall be held to repeal,  limit   or  modify  the  jurisdiction,  powers  and duties of any state or local   department, board, district, commission  or  authority,  or  any  public   corporation,  or  other  agency,  now  or  hereafter  possessed,  or  to   invalidate or modify, in whole or in part, any decision, order, license,   permit, approval, or other act, issued or taken heretofore or  hereafter   by  such  department,  board, district, commission, authority, or public   corporation or other agency, or to nullify, abate  or  otherwise  affect   any  rights acquired or action taken heretofore or hereafter pursuant to   such decision, order, license, permit, approval, or other act.4. Nothing in title 11 of this article shall be construed as requiring   that a plan hereunder be approved for  any  region  before  any  project   utilizing,  affecting or involving the water resources of such region in   whole or in part may be authorized, approved, initiated or  carried  out   within or without such region.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1301 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1301 - Definitions.

§ 15-1301. Definitions.1.  "Comprehensive  study  and  report"  shall  mean  a  comprehensive   engineering and economic feasibility study and the  resultant  plan  for   the  development  of  projects  to  provide  adequately  for present and   reasonably foreseeable area-wide public water supply system  needs.  The   study  shall  be designed to develop such information as may be required   by the department, including, but not limited to: technical feasibility;   cost  estimates  for  construction,  property  rights  acquisition   and   contingencies  and  for  engineering, legal and other services; proposed   methods of financing; and estimates of first costs and subsequent  total   annual  costs  of construction, operation and maintenance of recommended   facilities. Such study shall not provide  for  plans  and  projects  for   public  water  supply system, or portions thereof, the scope or the area   of which is less than that determined by the commission as necessary for   comprehensive area-wide water supply system planning. Such  study  shall   not  include  the  preparation of detail design and engineering drawing,   specifications, and contract documents.2. "Public water supply system" means the public treatment facilities,   transmission facilities and source of supply facilities to provide water   for residential, commercial, industrial and fire service needs for areas   located in two or more municipalities.3. "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village.4. "Governing body" means: (a) in a  county,  the  county  legislative   body;  (b)  in a city, the board of aldermen, common council, commission   or other body vested by its charter or other law  with  jurisdiction  to   enact  ordinances  or  local  laws,  except  that  in  a  city  having a   population of one million or more, if there be a board of estimate,  the   term  "governing body" shall mean such board of estimate; (c) in a town,   the town board; and (d) in a village, the board of trustees.5. "Local agency" means the  department,  bureau,  commission,  board,   division,   agency,   public  benefit  corporation,  administration,  or   committee of municipalities, designated by the governing  body  of  each   participating municipality, or designated by the county legislative body   in the case of a county acting on its own motion, to conduct and develop   comprehensive studies and reports.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1303 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1303 - Powers and Duties of the Department.

§ 15-1303. Powers and duties of the department.The department shall:1. Promulgate, and amend from time to time, such rules and regulations   as the department shall deem necessary, proper or desirable to carry out   the  provisions and purposes of this title and to assure the appropriate   coordination of water supply planning pursuant to this  title  with  the   planning,  protection,  conservation, development and utilization of the   water resources of  this  state  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this   chapter,  the  Public  Health  Law  or  any  other law.   Such rules and   regulations shall be promulgated prior to July 1, l964;2. Receive applications of local agencies for state aid,  pursuant  to   this  title,  in  such  form  and  containing such information as it may   require;3. Approve the area and scope of such comprehensive studies, prior  to   their execution, in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by   the  department;  and  upon recommendations of the state Commissioner of   Health;4. Approve applications for state aid pursuant to this title;5. Receive copies  of  final  reports  of  local  agencies;  and  make   advisory  recommendations  to  the  state  Commissioner  of  Health with   respect thereto;6. Performs such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper or   desirable to carry out effectively the provisions of this section.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1305 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1305 - Powers and Duties of the State Commissioner of Health.

§ 15-1305. Powers and duties of the state Commissioner of Health.The Commissioner of Health shall:1.  Review  the area and scope of any comprehensive study prior to its   execution and make recommendations to the  Department  of  Environmental   Conservation with respect thereto.2.  Advise  legal agencies and the participating municipalities of the   approval of their applications for state aid pursuant to this title;3.  Execute  contracts  for  the  services  of  consulting   engineers   necessary  for  such  studies  and reports jointly with the local agency   requesting state aid therefor;4. Approve the amount of compensation to be paid for such  engineering   services  and  the  method  of  determining such compensation; provided,   however, that such compensation shall not be computed on a per  diem  or   percentage of estimated costs basis;5.  Receive and approve final reports of local agencies prior to final   payment;6. Approve vouchers for the payment of state aid  grants  pursuant  to   the provisions of this title;7.  Prepare and file with the Department of Environmental Conservation   for its review and evaluation an annual report on the scope and  results   of comprehensive studies undertaken pursuant to this section;8.  Make  an  estimate  of the annual funds necessary to carry out the   provisions of this title and, with the approval  of  the  Department  of   Environmental  Conservation  request  such  amount  for inclusion in the   executive budget;9. Perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper  or   desirable to carry out effectively the provisions of this section.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1307 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1307 - Powers of Local Agencies.

§ 15-1307. Powers of local agencies.A local agency may:1. Apply to the department and contract with the state Commissioner of   Health  for  state  aid pursuant to this title on and after September 1,   1964.2.  Select  the  person  or  firm  to  perform  necessary   consulting   engineering services for a comprehensive study and report and enter into   contracts   for   such  services,  provided,  however,  that  the  state   Commissioner of Health shall also be a party to any such contract;3. Expend money received from the state pursuant to  this  title  only   for purposes consistent therewith.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1309 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1309 - State Aid.

§ 15-1309. State aid.The  state Commissioner of Health, may, in the name of the state, make   or contract to make, within appropriations therefor, a state  grant  for   payment  during  any  of  the  ten successive fiscal years of the state,   beginning with its fiscal year commencing April  1,  1964,  to  a  local   agency  to  cover  the  entire  cost,  as  determined  by  him,  of  the   preparation of a comprehensive study and report.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1311 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 13 - Comprehensive Public Water Supply Studies and Reports 15-1311 - Limitations.

§ 15-1311. Limitations.Nothing  in title 13 of this article shall be held to repeal, limit or   modify the jurisdiction,  powers  and  duties  of  any  state  or  local   department,  board,  district,  commission  or  authority, or any public   corporation,  or  other  agency,  now  or  hereafter  possessed,  or  to   invalidate or modify, in whole or in part, any decision, order, license,   permit,  approval, or other act, issued or taken heretofore or hereafter   by such department, board, district, commission,  authority,  or  public   corporation  or  other  agency, or to nullify, abate or otherwise affect   any rights acquired or action taken heretofore or hereafter pursuant  to   such decision, order, license, permit, approval, or other act.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1505 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 15 - Water Supply 15-1505 - Interbasin Diversions and Water Supply to Other States.

§ 15-1505. Interbasin diversions and water supply to other states.1. No person shall transport or carry through pipes, conduits, ditches   or  canals  the  waters  of  any  fresh  water lake, pond, brook, river,   stream, or creek in this state or any well,  subsurface  or  percolating   waters  of this state into any other state for use therein without first   obtaining a permit from the department pursuant to this title.2. No person shall make a new or increased interbasin diversion  which   results  in  a  diversion  in  excess of one million gallons per day, as   determined  by  the  limiting  maximum  capacity  of  the  treatment  or   conveyance  system, or construct facilities or equipment therefor, until   such person has registered the diversion with the department.  No  later   than  February fifteenth, two thousand thirteen, all existing interbasin   diversions in excess of one million gallons per day,  as  determined  by   the  limiting  maximum  capacity  of the treatment or conveyance system,   shall be registered with the department.3. Registration is not required for an interbasin diversion  which  is   part  of a water withdrawal system for which the department has issued a   permit under this title, or  which  is  operating  pursuant  to  a  duly   authorized permit issued by the department or its predecessors.4.  Registration  shall be renewed every year or whenever ownership of   the facilities which create  an  interbasin  diversion  is  transferred,   whichever  occurs  first. Registration shall be made on forms prescribed   by the department and shall contain all  information  requested  by  the   department  relative  to  the  water withdrawal, use and discharge. Each   person who is required under this section to register shall annually, on   a form prescribed by the department, report all information requested by   the department, including the amount of water diverted.  Information  on   interbasin diversions shall be posted on the department's website.5.  No person shall make a new or increased interbasin diversion which   results in a significant adverse impact on the  water  quantity  of  the   source New York major drainage basin.6.  Diversions  from  the  Great  Lakes-St.  Lawrence  river basin are   prohibited by the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin  Water  Resources   Compact,  as enacted in title ten of article twenty-one of this chapter.   Limited  exceptions  for  public  water  supply  systems  will  only  be   considered when in compliance with that Compact.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1506 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 15 - Water Supply 15-1506 - Transportation of Water by Vessel.

§ 15-1506. Transportation of water by vessel.1.  Except as provided in subdivision three of this section, no person   or public corporation shall transport or carry by vessel, more than  ten   thousand  gallons  in  any one day of the waters of any freshwater lake,   pond, brook, river,  stream,  or  creek  in  this  state  without  first   obtaining a permit from the department.2.  If  the  department  finds  that  the  transport  of such water is   reasonable, and is not contrary  to  the  conservation  of  the  natural   resources  of the state or to other uses of the water, including health,   safety and welfare of the people of  the  state,  the  permit  shall  be   granted   subject   to  reasonable  conditions  on  the  withdrawal  and   transport. Such permit shall be subject to annual renewal.3. No permit shall be necessary for the taking of a volume of  ballast   water necessary for normal vessel activity, but this exemption shall not   apply to the exchange of ballast water.4.  The  department shall not issue permits for the transport of water   by vessel which will conflict or be inconsistent with the provisions  of   any interstate compact, commission or charter relating to the allocation   of water resources to which New York is a signitory.
NY Env Conserv L § 15-1507 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ENV - Environmental Conservation Article 15 - Water Resources Title 15 - Water Supply 15-1507 - Municipal Water Supply Reservoirs on Forest Preserve Lands.

§ 15-1507. Municipal water supply reservoirs on forest preserve lands.Any public corporation, now or hereafter empowered by law to construct   and  operate  a  publicly  owned  system  for  the  supply  of water for   drinking, domestic  and  public  purposes  to  the  inhabitants  of  any   municipality,  may make application for the construction and maintenance   by the state of a water supply reservoir on lands owned by the state and   constituting a part  of  the  forest  preserve  thereof  in  the  manner   hereinafter set forth.