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A05060 Summary:

BILL NOA05060 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORJacobson

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COSPNSREachus

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Provides for a partial real property tax exemption for the water filtration plant for the City of Newburgh, Orange County, New York.

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02/11/2025referred to real property taxation

01/07/2026referred to real property taxation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5060

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 11, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, EACHUS -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Real Property Taxation

 AN ACT providing for a partial real property tax exemption for the water
 filtration plant for the City of Newburgh, Orange County, New York

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds as follows:
 2 a. In 2014, potential contaminants, including Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl
 3 Substances (PFAS) were detected in Lake Washington, the primary source
 4 for the drinking water supply for the City of Newburgh in Orange County,
 5 New York ("the City"). At the time, the level of contamination was at
 6 170 ppt, below the 400 ppt limit then recommended by the U.S. Environ-
 7 mental Protection Agency ("EPA"). When the EPA set a new level of 70 ppt
 8 for short-term exposure in May 2016, the City manager declared an emer-
 9 gency.
 10 b. The source of contamination was determined to be PFOS- and
 11 PFAS-containing firefighting foam used at Stewart Air National Guard
 12 Base for training and emergency purposes. In August 2016, Stewart Air
 13 National Guard Base was designated as a state Superfund site to hold the
 14 U.S. Department of Defense responsible for full site clean-up.
 15 c. New York State stepped in to assist with and fund the City's water
 16 supply hookup to Brown's Pond and then to the Catskill Aqueduct for a
 17 longer term, temporary water source. The State also constructed a granu-
 18 lar activated carbon treatment facility ("GAC system") at the City's
 19 water filtration plant to remove PFAS from the water in Washington Lake.
 20 The GAC system became operational in 2018.
 21 d. The City's water filtration plants and the GAC system are located
 22 outside the municipal boundaries of the City in the towns of Newburgh
 23 and New Windsor in Orange County. Both the county and the town of
 24 Newburgh have exempted the City's water supply plants from real property
 25 taxation. The City pays real property taxes annually to the town of New

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02366-01-5

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 1 Windsor, and to the Newburgh Enlarged City School District and the Corn-
 2 wall Central School District.
 3 e. Following the construction of the GAC system, the town of New Wind-
 4 sor reassessed the value of the City's water filtration plant in light
 5 of the constructed improvements. The reassessment resulted in a substan-
 6 tial increase in the property tax value and, thus, in taxes. The taxes
 7 for the Newburgh Enlarged City School District alone rose from
 8 $49,604.25 during the 2016-2017 tax assessment year to $303,046.59
 9 during the 2018-2019 tax assessment year, an increase of nearly
 10 $250,000.00.
 11 f. The City has commenced tax certiorari proceedings in the Supreme
 12 Court of the State of New York, County of Orange for the 2017-2018 and
 13 2018-2019 tax assessment years bearing Orange County Index Nos.
 14 EF005922-2017 and EF007932-2018. The City was required to produce a
 15 trial-ready property appraisal in September 2019, but those proceedings
 16 were adjourned to May 2020, and no appraisal was filed as a result of
 17 the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions that closed or signif-
 18 icantly curtailed the operation of the New York state court system.
 19 During the time such court operations were limited, the City continued
 20 to protect its interests by filing tax certiorari proceedings for the