Bill Text: NY S05512 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the lead pipe right to know act requiring public water systems to take service line inventories and make such information available to the public.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-12-19 - APPROVAL MEMO.56 [S05512 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05512-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5512 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the lead pipe right to know act The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "lead pipe right to know act". 3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1114-b 4 to read as follows: 5 § 1114-b. Service line inventories and mapping. 1. Definitions. For 6 the purposes of this section: 7 (a) "Service line" means any piping connecting a water main to a 8 building inlet. 9 (b) "Gooseneck, pigtail, or connector" means a short section of 10 piping, typically not exceeding two feet, which can be bent and used for 11 connections between rigid portions of a service line. 12 (c) "Galvanized service line" means iron or steel piping that has been 13 dipped in zinc to prevent corrosion and rusting. 14 (d) "Covered public water system" means (i) a public water system that 15 serves at least five service connections used by year-round residents or 16 regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents; or (ii) a 17 public water system that regularly serves at least twenty-five of the 18 same people, four hours or more per day, for four or more days per week, 19 for twenty-six or more weeks per year. 20 2. Each covered public water system shall submit a service line inven- 21 tory, in a format to be developed by the department, that identifies the 22 location, material composition, and other details of all service lines 23 connected to its distribution system. Each covered public water system 24 shall also submit an inventory summary form, in a format to be developed 25 by the department, summarizing the data identified in the service line EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08102-02-3S. 5512 2 1 inventory. The development of service line inventories and inventory 2 summary forms shall comply with requirements promulgated by the United 3 States environmental protection agency as well as comply with the 4 provisions of this section. 5 3. Each service line connected to a covered public water system's 6 distribution system shall be listed in service line inventories. Each 7 covered public water system shall include for each service line the 8 information listed in this subdivision. For some categories, the covered 9 public water system may mark "unknown" where documented evidence is not 10 currently available: 11 (a) street address; 12 (b) town; 13 (c) zip code; 14 (d) whether a gooseneck, pigtail, or connector made of lead is pres- 15 ent; 16 (e) the material composition of both the public portion and customer 17 portion of the service line; 18 (f) whether the public portion or customer portion of the service line 19 was ever made of lead; 20 (g) the verification method used to determine the material composition 21 of both the public portion and customer portion of the service line; 22 (h) the installation or replacement date of both the public portion 23 and customer portion of the service line; 24 (i) the diameter of both the public portion and customer portion of 25 the service line; 26 (j) whether lead solder is present; 27 (k) the building type; and 28 (l) whether a point of use or point of entry treatment system is pres- 29 ent. 30 4. Inventory summary forms shall include, but not be limited to, the 31 following information about each covered water system: 32 (a) water system name and identification number; 33 (b) contact information for the owner or licensed operator of record 34 completing the form; 35 (c) the total number of service lines in the distribution system; 36 (d) the total number of lead service lines, including the total number 37 of lead public service line portions and the total number of lead 38 customer service line portions; 39 (e) the total number of galvanized service lines requiring replace- 40 ment, including the total number of galvanized public service line 41 portions and the total number of galvanized customer service line 42 portions; 43 (f) the total number of non-lead service lines, including the total 44 number of non-lead public service line portions and the total number of 45 non-lead customer service line portions; 46 (g) the total number of service lines of unknown material, including 47 the total number of unknown public service line portions and the total 48 number of unknown customer service line portions; 49 (h) the total number of public service line portions identified by 50 historical records, field inspections, customer identification with 51 photo or other verification, excavation, sequential sampling, and 52 statistical analysis/predictive modeling; 53 (i) the total number of customer service portions identified by 54 historical records, field inspections, customer identification with 55 photo or other verification, excavation, sequential sampling, and 56 statistical analysis/predictive modeling;S. 5512 3 1 (j) a description of how the service line inventory will be accessible 2 to the public; and 3 (k) a certification verifying the accuracy of the information. 4 5. Each covered public water system shall electronically submit to the 5 department an initial service line inventory and an initial inventory 6 summary form no later than October sixteenth, two thousand twenty-four. 7 The department may prescribe data management means and methods for elec- 8 tronic submissions by covered public water systems for uniformity 9 purposes. 10 6. Covered public water systems whose inventories contain any service 11 lines classified as lead, galvanized, or unknown shall electronically 12 submit updated service line inventories and inventory summary forms to 13 the department at least annually. Updated service line inventories and 14 inventory summary forms shall reflect information gathered during any 15 service line replacements or service line material inspections that may 16 have been conducted. Updated inventory summary forms shall additionally 17 include: 18 (a) a description detailing the steps being taken to determine the 19 material composition of unknown service lines; 20 (b) the total number of service lines classified as lead, galvanized, 21 or unknown that were replaced over the course of the previous year; and 22 (c) the total number of service lines classified as unknown that were 23 determined to be lead, galvanized, or other material over the course of 24 the previous year. 25 7. Each covered public water system which operates its own website 26 shall make its most recent service line inventory and inventory summary 27 form available to the public on its website. 28 8. No later than thirty days after receiving initial and updated 29 service line inventories and inventory summary forms, the department 30 shall make such inventories and inventory summary forms available to the 31 public on the department's website. Each local health department shall 32 include a link on its website to the website operated by the department 33 for hosting service line inventories and inventory summary forms. 34 9. No later than three hundred sixty days after October sixteenth, two 35 thousand twenty-four, the department shall make the information from the 36 service line inventories of covered public water systems serving more 37 than ten thousand people available to the public on the department's 38 website in the form of an interactive map or maps. Such interactive map 39 or maps shall include, for each service line: 40 (a) material classification, including the material classification of 41 both the public and customer portions of a service line; 42 (b) street address; and 43 (c) the verification method for the service line classification. 44 10. The department's interactive map or maps shall be searchable by 45 address, and color-coded where applicable to designate material classi- 46 fication. The department's interactive map or maps shall be updated at 47 least annually, in conjunction with the submission of updated service 48 line inventories by covered public water systems. The department may 49 choose not to create an interactive map when a covered public water 50 system certifies that it maintains and updates its own interactive map. 51 11. The department shall adopt such rules and regulations as it deems 52 necessary and proper to implement the provisions of this section. 53 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
