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2023 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.
2023 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 a
city.
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; and
b. 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1511 - Procedure on Approval of Application With Respect to Forest Preserve Reservoir Projects.

§ 15-1511. Procedure  on  approval of application with respect to forest
preserve reservoir projects.
1. The decision of the department on an application shall be certified
  to the applicant. Thereafter, and at any time within five years  of  the
  date  of the decision, the applicant may petition the department that it
  construct the reservoir and appurtenant works  in  accordance  with  the
  approved  plans.  Such  petition  shall  be  in  writing  and  shall  be
  accompanied by plans and specifications for the structures to  be  built
  and such other papers as may be necessary to show to the satisfaction of
  the  department  that  the  project  in  all  respects  conforms  to the
  requirements of the decision  of  the  department.  The  department  may
  permit minor modifications in the plans or specifications, provided that
  the general features of the project as first approved are not changed.
2.  If  the  department  decides that the project which it is asked to
  build is in conformity with the provisions  of  its  decision  upon  the
  original  application  it  shall  advertise  for proposals for doing the
  work. Upon the receipt of such proposals, the department  shall  make  a
  final  determination  of  the  probable  cost  of  the project and shall
  require the applicant to state that it desires the work to proceed,  and
  to  show that it has available sufficient funds to defray the total cost
  thereof. If the applicant desires to  carry  out  the  project  and  the
  department  is  satisfied  that  sufficient  funds are available for the
  purpose, the department shall thereupon let contracts  for  and  proceed
  with the construction of the works.
3.  In  obtaining  proposals  and  letting  contracts  for  and in the
  prosecution of this  work  the  department  shall  be  governed  by  the
  provisions  of  title  19  of  this  article,  insofar  as  they  may be
  applicable to the provisions of this part of article 15.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1513 - Payment of Cost of Construction.

§ 15-1513. Payment of cost of construction.
1.  The  cost of any such project shall be certified by the department
  to the applicant and shall be paid by the applicant within  thirty  days
  thereafter to the persons or corporations entitled thereto. Either total
  or  partial  costs  may  be  thus  certified,  as  the  department shall
  determine. The applicant is hereby authorized to  pay  such  costs  from
  funds which have been raised, or which it is authorized to raise for the
  purpose of waterworks construction.
2.  It shall be unlawful for the applicant to pay out, for any purpose
  other than those specified in this section, any  funds  which  it  shall
  have  certified  to the department to be available for defraying cost of
  this  construction,  until  such  time  as  the  department  shall  have
  certified to the applicant that all construction costs have been paid.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1515 - Supervision of Construction and Operation.

§ 15-1515. Supervision of construction and operation.
1.  All  construction  work  which  the  Department  of  Environmental
  Conservation is authorized to undertake by virtue of the  provisions  of
  sections  15-1507  through  15-1519 shall be done under the direction of
  the Commissioner of Transportation. After  the  works  shall  have  been
  constructed,  they  shall  thereafter be maintained and operated for the
  benefit of the applicant by the Commissioner of Transportation under the
  direction of the Department of Environmental Conservation.
2. All costs  of  such  supervision  of  construction,  operation  and
  maintenance  shall  be  paid by the applicant in the manner specified in
  section 15-1513 of this article, except that the applicant shall not  be
  charged  with  the  salaries  and expenses of such officials and regular
  employees of the state who, in addition to other duties,  exercise  only
  general  supervision over the work done under the provisions of sections
  15-1507 through 15-1519.
3. The Department  of  Environmental  Conservation  is  authorized  to
  employ  such  engineers  and  other  persons  as  may in its judgment be
  necessary to carry  out  the  provisions  of  sections  15-1507  through
  15-1519   and   to   fix  the  compensation  for  such  employees.  Such
  compensation shall be paid by the applicant.
4. Except for such expenses and salaries as are specifically  exempted
  by  subdivision  2  of  this  section,  no  moneys of the state shall be
  expended, nor shall the state incur any  liability  or  indebtedness  by
  virtue of the provisions of sections 15-1507 through 15-1519.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1517 - Reservoir to Be Owned by the State.

§ 15-1517. Reservoir to be owned by the state.
Any  lands not owned by the state, but required for the purpose of the
  construction of the reservoir on forest preserve lands shall be acquired
  by the applicant, by purchase  or  condemnation,  and  conveyed  by  the
  applicant to the state, provided however that no rental shall be paid to
  the state for any land thus acquired. The reservoir and all dams, dikes,
  spillways,  gate  houses,  pipe  lines  or  any  other  works  which the
  department shall construct on state owned land shall be the property  of
  the  state,  but  shall  be  operated  solely  for  the  benefit  of the
  applicant.  All  real  estate,  reservoirs  and  appurtenant  structures
  acquired,  taken  or  constructed pursuant to the provisions of sections
  15-1507 through 15-1519 are hereby dedicated to the  uses  and  purposes
  for  which  acquired,  taken  or  constructed,  and the right, title and
  interest acquired by the state therein is so acquired  subject  to  such
  use and purposes.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1519 - Reservoir to Be Kept in Repair.

§ 15-1519. Reservoir to be kept in repair.
The  reservoir  and  appurtenant works shall be kept in safe, sanitary
  and serviceable condition and to this end shall be  repaired,  remodeled
  or  additional  work  done thereon at the request of the applicant or as
  required by  the  department.  All  such  work  shall  be  done  by  the
  department  at  the  expense of the applicant. If the applicant shall at
  any time determine that its needs for  an  additional  supply  of  water
  require  the  enlargement  of  the  reservoir  in  order  that a greater
  quantity of water can be stored therein or drawn therefrom, a new  water
  supply  application  shall be made to the department asking for approval
  of the desired modifications of the original plans.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1521 - Supply of Water to Other Public Water Supply Systems.

§ 15-1521. Supply of water to other public water supply systems.
On  any  application  for a new or increased withdrawal of water for a
  public water supply system, the department may require or authorize  the
  applicant  to  make provisions for the supply and to supply water to any
  area of the state which as determined by the department in its  decision
  on  that  application  properly  should  be supplied with water from the
  source or sources of water supply sought by the applicant. The owner  or
  operator  of  any existing or proposed public water supply system within
  such area may apply to the department for a permit to  take  water  from
  that  source of water supply or from any part of the public water supply
  system of the applicant supplied in whole or in part from  that  source.
  If the department so requires, or if it grants a permit, it shall be the
  duty  of  the applicant so to supply water, subject to such requirements
  as the department may impose. The price to be paid  for  the  amount  of
  water  so  to  be taken may be agreed upon between the applicant and the
  taker of the water, or if they cannot agree, fair and reasonable amounts
  and rates shall be, after due hearings  thereon,  fixed  by  the  public
  service  commission.  Any  such agreement or determination of the public
  service commission  may  from  time  to  time  be  modified  by  further
  agreement  between  the parties affected thereby or by the further order
  of the commission.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1528 - Moratorium on the Drilling of New Wells in the Lloyd Sands.

§ 15-1528. Moratorium on the drilling of new wells in the Lloyd Sands.
1.  The  department is directed to identify those areas of Long Island
  within the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk which, for  the
  purposes of this section, shall be considered coastal communities.
2. A moratorium shall be established on the granting of new permits to
  drill public water supply, private water supply or industrial wells into
  the  Lloyd  Sands  or  to permit new withdrawals of water from the Lloyd
  Sands or to permit the storage or pumping of water into the Lloyd Sands.
  Such  moratorium  shall  apply  to  all  areas  that  are  not   coastal
  communities,  provided  however  that such moratorium shall apply to all
  areas including coastal communities for the storage or pumping of  water
  into  the  Lloyd  Sands. The waters of the Lloyd Sands shall be reserved
  for the use of  coastal  communities  during  the  moratorium,  however,
  nothing  required  herein  shall  affect  the permits of wells presently
  screened in the Lloyd Sands and withdrawing water therefrom.
3.  The  moratorium  shall  be  lifted  upon  a  directive  from   the
  commissioner.  The  directive  shall  be  based  upon  his  finding that
  sufficient research has been conducted so as to provide a sound  working
  knowledge  of  the  details,  dynamics, water volume, and levels of safe
  withdrawal appropriate to maintain a safe quantity of Lloyd Sands water.
  Further, the commissioner must find that a workable program is in  place
  that  can  properly administer a well permit program for the Lloyd Sands
  water. Such program shall take  into  account  both  the  localized  and
  regional aspects and implications of Lloyd Sands water withdrawals, with
  special  attention  given  to  the prevention of water contamination and
  salt water intrusion. The program must  ensure  that  a  safe  level  of
  withdrawal from the Lloyd Sands is not exceeded.
4.  The  commissioner  may  grant  exemptions to the moratorium upon a
  finding of just cause and extreme hardship. Such  exemptions  shall  not
  apply  to  the  storage  or  pumping  of  water into the Lloyd Sands. An
  adjudicatory hearing  shall  be  held  and  findings  presented  to  the
  commissioner prior to the granting of an exemption.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1529 - Approval of Completed Water Withdrawal Systems.

§ 15-1529.  Approval of completed water withdrawal systems.
The  construction  of  any  new  or  modified  water withdrawal system
  authorized under this title shall be under the general supervision of  a
  person  or  firm  licensed  to  practice professional engineering in the
  state. Upon completion  of  construction,  such  person  or  firm  shall
  certify  to  the  department  that  the water withdrawal system has been
  fully completed in accordance  with  the  approved  engineering  report,
  plans  and  specifications,  and  the  permit  issued  by the department
  pursuant to this title. The owner shall not commence  operation  of  the
  new  or  modified  water  withdrawal  system  prior  to  the  department
  receiving such certificate and prior to approval of the  system  by  the
  department  of  health  or  its designee as may be required by the state
  sanitary code.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 15 - Water Supply › 15-1530 - Long Island Water Usage Information.

§ 15-1530. Long Island water usage information.
In  Nassau and Suffolk counties, all water purveyors, either public or
  private, or a water authority, with  ten  thousand  or  more  customers,
  shall  include  water  usage information along with customer bills. Such
  usage information shall be specified in both gallons and cubic feet  and
  at a minimum include:
1. information on year to date usage;
2. a seasonal comparison; and
3. last year's usage for the same time period.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1701 - Reservation of State Control.

§ 15-1701. Reservation of state control.
Where  any  person  takes,  diverts,  appropriates, or otherwise uses,
  whether by virtue of the provisions of  title  17  of  this  article  or
  otherwise,  the  waters  of  the  state  over  which  the  state has the
  proprietary ownership of the flow and to the use of which the state  has
  the  right  paramount  and  exclusive,  or  concurrently  with any other
  jurisdiction, such waters shall remain subject to the power and  control
  of  the state for the purposes of regulating, licensing, controlling, or
  terminating the use and disposition of the same by such person, as  well
  as for the purpose of exacting any rentals or charges therefor.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1709 - Preliminary Permits.

§ 15-1709. Preliminary permits.
1.  The  department  may  issue preliminary permits for the purpose of
  enabling applicants for a license hereunder to secure the  data  and  to
  perform  the  acts  required by section 15-1707, provided, however, that
  upon the filing of any application  for  a  preliminary  permit  by  any
  person  or  public  corporation,  the  department  before  granting such
  application shall at once give notice of such application in writing  to
  any  municipality  which, in its judgment, is likely to be interested in
  or affected by such application. Each such permit shall be for the  sole
  purpose  of  maintaining priority of application for a license under the
  terms of title 17 of this  article  for  such  period  or  periods,  not
  exceeding a total of three years, as in the discretion of the department
  may  be  necessary  for making examinations and surveys, preparing maps,
  plans, specifications and estimates, and making financial arrangements.
2. The permit shall set forth  the  conditions  under  which  priority
  shall  be  maintained  and  the  license  issued,  and may prescribe any
  condition of issuing the license for the protection of the interests  of
  the  state.  Only  one  preliminary permit at a time shall be issued and
  outstanding for the same project. The same preference shall be  accorded
  by  the  department in considering applications for a preliminary permit
  as  is  accorded  in  considering  applications  for  a  license.   Each
  preliminary permit shall require the permittee to proceed diligently and
  immediately  to  secure  the  data  and  to perform the acts required by
  section 15-1707.
3. All investigation work in connection with any operations carried on
  under the preliminary permit shall be subject to the inspection  of  the
  department,  its  agents  and employees, and, from time to time upon the
  request of the department, the permittee shall make full reports to  the
  department  of the progress of the work carried on under the preliminary
  permit, but such reports shall be confidential until  final  application
  is  made  for  the  license,  unless the department takes proceedings to
  revoke the preliminary permit.
4. Permits shall not be transferable  and  may  be  cancelled  by  the
  department  upon  failure of the permittee to comply with the conditions
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1713 - Waters Impounded by Dams Constructed for Power Purposes Impressed With a Public Interest.

§ 15-1713. Waters  impounded  by  dams  constructed  for  power purposes
impressed with a public interest.
The waters impounded  by  any  dam  hereafter  constructed  for  power
  purposes on any stream or waterway in the state, shall be impressed with
  a  public  interest  and  open  to  the  public  to  fish  thereon, when
  authorized by other applicable provisions of this chapter subject to the
  conditions and limitations found in section 11-1311 of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1715 - Licenses and the Protection of Navigation.

§ 15-1715. Licenses and the protection of navigation.
Before   granting  any  license,  the  department  shall  inquire  and
  determine to its own satisfaction that the  exercise  of  the  privilege
  conferred  will  not  impair  or interfere with navigation on the waters
  covered by the license and,  whenever,  the  public  interest  requires,
  shall  impose such conditions in granting the license as may be required
  to protect and safeguard navigation.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1717 - Provisions for the Revision and Readjustment of Rent in Licenses.

§ 15-1717. Provisions  for  the  revision  and  readjustment  of rent in
licenses.
1. The annual charge or rental fixed by the department shall  continue
  for  the  period  of  the  license,  unless  the  license provides for a
  readjustment of the charge or rental at a specified time  or  times,  in
  which case the charge or rental, as fixed by the license, may be revised
  and  readjusted by the department according to the terms of the license.
  Payments on account of any such charge or rental shall be treated  as  a
  part of the operating expense.
2.  The licensee shall be given ten days' notice of the time and place
  of the meeting of the department at which the question of  the  revision
  and  readjustment  of  such  charge  or rental will be considered.   The
  revision and readjustment shall be in the form of a  resolution  adopted
  by  the  department and thereafter, the revised and readjusted rental or
  charge, unless reviewed and reversed or  modified  as  herein  provided,
  shall apply to and govern the license.
3.  Any  such decision may be reviewed by the licensee pursuant to the
  provisions of section 15-0905.
4. Pending the final determination  of  the  review  proceedings,  the
  licensee  shall  pay  to  the state the revised and readjusted rental or
  charge as fixed by the department; and if it shall  be  determined  that
  the rental or charge shall be revised, the licensee shall be credited on
  later  payments  with  any  excess he may pay over the rental as finally
  fixed, with interest. If the credits be  insufficient  to  satisfy  such
  excess, the licensee may recover the balance in the Court of Claims.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1719 - Equitable Rental for Niagara River Water.

§ 15-1719. Equitable rental for Niagara River water.
The  department  shall  have  the  power to fix and determine, after a
  hearing held upon notice to the parties interested,  the  amount  of  an
  equitable  rental,  which is hereby charged pursuant to the reservations
  made in chapter 597 of the laws of 1918 for the diversion, as  specified
  in  such  chapter,  of water from the Niagara River in excess of a daily
  diversion at the rate of fifteen thousand one  hundred  cubic  feet  per
  second,  and also, from July 1, 1943, the amount of an equitable rental,
  which is hereby charged, for the diversion of  water  from  the  Niagara
  River to the extent of a daily diversion at the rate of fifteen thousand
  one  hundred  cubic  feet  per  second  and not otherwise subject to the
  imposition of an equitable rental as specified  in  such  chapter.  Such
  rental  shall  be fixed in like manner as if application were made for a
  license under the provisions of title 17  of  this  article  before  the
  water  was  used, and the people of the state may sue for and collect in
  behalf of the state such rentals as so fixed and determined.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1721 - Reservation in the License; State Control of Rates and Use and Distribution of Power.

§ 15-1721. Reservation  in  the  license; state control of rates and use
and distribution of power.
1. Every license issued pursuant to title 17 of  this  article  for  a
  project  shall  contain a provision expressly reserving to the state the
  right to regulate and control the use  and  distribution  of  the  power
  generated  by any licensee, and to fix reasonable rates to be charged by
  the licensee under all circumstances for furnishing heat, light or power
  generated wholly or partly  by  the  use  of  property  covered  by  the
  license, and to regulate the service, capitalization and secured debt of
  the licensee and licensed project.
2. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon, and it shall be the duty of,
  the  Public  Service  Commission  to  regulate  and  control the use and
  distribution of all power generated by any licensee under  title  17  of
  this  article,  or generated by any person or public corporation, by the
  use and diversion for power purposes of any waters of the state in which
  the state has a proprietary right or interest,  and  to  fix  reasonable
  rates  to  be  charged  by  such  licensee,  or  such  person  or public
  corporation, for furnishing heat, light or  power  generated  wholly  or
  partly by the use of water in which the state has a proprietary right or
  interest.  In  the  exercise  of  such  jurisdiction  the Public Service
  Commission shall give  preference  to  municipalities  in  the  use  and
  distribution  of  power  generated by such licensee or by such person or
  public corporation. To carry out the provisions  of  this  section,  and
  until    otherwise    provided    by   law,   complaints,   inspections,
  investigations, hearings, rules, regulations, orders and  determinations
  may  be  made or had, and rules, regulations and orders enforced, in the
  manner, so far as applicable, provided in the Public Service  Commission
  Law  in  respect of electrical corporations and of the manufacture, sale
  and distribution of electricity.
3. Every license issued pursuant  to  this  article  shall  contain  a
  condition  that  the development of power thereunder shall be subject to
  the control and authority of the Public Service Commission to the extent
  conferred upon such Commission by this section.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1723 - Contribution to the Cost of Headwater Improvement.

§ 15-1723. Contribution to the cost of headwater improvement.
Licensees  and persons exercising rights conferred by title 17 of this
  article shall be liable for any payments or charges resulting  from  the
  improvement  of headwaters under the provisions of title 21 and title 23
  of this article, according to their respective interests in the property
  benefited.
2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 15 - Water Resources › Title 17 - Water Power › 15-1725 - Prosecution of Project Works.

§ 15-1725. Prosecution of project works.
1.  The  licensee shall commence the construction of the project works
  within the time fixed therefor in the license. He  shall  thereafter  in
  good faith and with due diligence continue the construction thereof, and
  within the time fixed in the license complete and put into operation the
  whole  of  such  development  work  or such part or parts thereof as the
  license prescribes; except that when not incompatible  with  the  public
  interest,  the  department  may,  from  time to time, for good cause, by
  resolution extend the time either for the commencement  of  construction
  or for the completion thereof.
2. The licensee shall, when required by the department and as often as
  once  in  every  six  months during the course of the construction, file
  with the department a detailed statement of  the  cost  of  the  project
  during  the period covered by the statement. Within six months after the
  licensee has filed its final  statement  after  the  completion  of  the
  project,  the department shall file a statement of the total cost of the
  investment.
3. The department at such time or times as it deems proper may examine
  any statement of the licensee, whether partial or complete, and  hold  a
  hearing  to  determine whether the same correctly states the cost of the
  project or part thereof, as therein set forth, and shall have  power  to
  determine  whether any part of the expenditure has been made wastefully,
  or in disregard of the terms of the license, or in  bad  faith,  and  to
  deduct  such  items improperly included as may be necessary to make such
  statement or statements conform to the  fair  and  actual  cost  of  the
  project  or  part  thereof.  Subject  to  review  as provided in section
  15-0905, the determination of the department shall be conclusive for all
  purposes as to the amount of  such  investment  as  shown  by  any  such
  statement.