New York S 9622: Enacts the "private well testing act"

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S09622 Summary:

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Amd §3-0315, En Con L; amd §§206 & 1100, add §1111, Pub Health L; add §468, RP L

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Enacts the "private well testing act"; authorizes the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water from privately owned wells.

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03/30/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9622

 IN SENATE

 March 30, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, the public health
 law and the real property law, in relation to enacting the "private
 well testing 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 "private well testing act".
 3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
 4 law, as amended by section 12 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of
 5 2017, is amended to read as follows:
 6 1. The department in conjunction with the commissioner of health shall
 7 create and maintain a geographic information system, and associated data
 8 storage and analytical systems for purposes of collecting, streamlining,
 9 and visualizing integrated data, permits, and relevant sites about
 10 drinking water quality including, but not limited to, incorporating
 11 supply well and monitoring well data, emerging contaminant data, water
 12 quality monitoring data, pertinent data from remediation and landfill
 13 sites, permitted discharge locations and other potential contamination
 14 risks to water supplies. Such system shall also incorporate information
 15 from the source water assessment program collected by the department of
 16 health, information collected pursuant to section eleven hundred eleven
 17 of the public health law, data from annual water supply statements
 18 prepared pursuant to section eleven hundred fifty-one of the public
 19 health law, information from the database pursuant to title fourteen of
 20 article twenty-seven of this chapter, and any other existing data
 21 regarding soil and groundwater contamination currently gathered by the
 22 department, as well as data on contamination that is readily available
 23 from the United States geological survey and other sources determined
 24 appropriate by the department. In addition to facilitating interagency
 25 coordination and predictive analysis to protect water quality, such
 26 system shall provide state agency information to the public through a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06598-01-5

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 1 website, within reasonable limitations to ensure confidentiality and
 2 security.
 3 § 3. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 4 subdivision 32 to read as follows:
 5 32. The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules
 6 and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water
 7 from privately owned wells. Such standards shall apply to any water
 8 wells subject to subdivision eighteen of this section, as added by chap-
 9 ter three hundred ninety-five of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-
 10 nine. Such testing shall be to determine the quality, safety and exist-
 11 ing level of contamination of drinking water from privately owned wells.
 12 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 1100 of the public health law, as
 13 amended by chapter 655 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
 14 follows:
 15 1. The department may make rules and regulations for the protection
 16 from contamination of any or all public or private supplies of potable
 17 waters and water supplies of the state or United States, institutions,
 18 parks, reservations or posts and their s