New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter IX - Independent Agencies Within The Department › Subchapter A - Lake George Park Commission › Part 646 - Substantive Regulations › Subpart 646-4 - Stormwater Management › Section 646-4.16 - General requirements for stormwater management plans

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Each municipality's stormwater management plan shall, at
						a minimum:
(a) Provide for the
					 implementation of the plan and its integration with other components of the
					 municipality's land use planning program, such as zoning, subdivision, sanitary
					 and site plan review controls, provide for the coordination of stormwater
					 management with adjoining communities, and provide for public participation in
					 stormwater planning and decisionmaking.
(b) Establish objectives and set policies
					 which ensure that pollutant loads in stormwater runoff are minimized, that
					 stormwater runoff is recharged to groundwater to the maximum extent possible,
					 and that increases in the annual volume of stormwater runoff entering Lake
					 George as a result of any land use or development are prevented. The objectives
					 and policies shall also apply to new, expanded or altered development, land
					 clearing, land grading and erosion and sedimentation control measures. Said
					 policies and objectives shall address land use practices such as the use of
					 pesticides and other chemicals, fertilizers, road salt, sand and other possible
					 contaminants in maintaining or managing new or existing land resources, roads
					 and structures, and shall establish policies and objectives for stormwater
					 management for projects undertaken by state and local government bodies, and
					 remediating the effects of stormwater runoff from presently existing private
					 facilities and government facilities including highways, parking lots and
					 buildings.
(c) Assign
					 responsibility for stormwater management planning and regulation to one or more
					 elected or appointed local boards, which may be a board appointed specifically
					 for that purpose, or to qualified staff persons. Municipal authority to make
					 stormwater-related decisions may be delegated to such a designated board or to
					 such staff, provided the scope and limits of authority are clearly specified.
					 The staff position or type of retained consultant who will advise the
					 administering board shall be described, together with the qualifications which
					 shall be required for such position. Duly qualified engineering and project
					 review personnel or consultants shall be required for reviewing development
					 project plans, programs, reports and construction.
(d) Establish procedures for periodically
					 revising stormwater management plans and stormwater regulatory programs and
					 overseeing implementation, as an on-going process, including administration of
					 regulatory controls and execution of nonregulatory methods for accomplishing
					 plan objectives.
(e) Outline and
					 summarize the stormwater regulatory program to be adopted consistent with the
					 requirements of this Subpart.
(f)
					 Develop and implement procedures for ensuring that private and municipal
					 stormwater control structures and natural or human-made features used to
					 control stormwater runoff are properly and periodically maintained, and are
					 replaced in timely fashion as may become necessary. The procedures must provide
					 for adequate funding and administrative control in perpetuity.
(g) Consider, in determining the significance
					 of stormwater impacts on the lake, past degradation of the lake's water
					 quality, the cumulative impact of proposed projects and any other development
					 or activities in the park which can be reasonably anticipated and the
					 assimilative capacity of the lake.
(h) Provide for the application of the plan
					 to projects undertaken or constructed by the municipality.