N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0315: Geographic information system

§ 3-0315. Geographic information system.

1. The department in conjunction with the commissioner of health shall

create and maintain a geographic information system, and associated data

storage and analytical systems for purposes of collecting, streamlining,

and visualizing integrated data, permits, and relevant sites about

drinking water quality including, but not limited to, incorporating

supply well and monitoring well data, emerging contaminant data, water

quality monitoring data, pertinent data from remediation and landfill

sites, permitted discharge locations and other potential contamination

risks to water supplies. Such system shall also incorporate information

from the source water assessment program collected by the department of

health, data from annual water supply statements prepared pursuant to

section eleven hundred fifty-one of the public health law, information

from the database pursuant to title fourteen of article twenty-seven of

this chapter, and any other existing data regarding soil and groundwater

contamination currently gathered by the department, as well as data on

contamination that is readily available from the United States

geological survey and other sources determined appropriate by the

department. In addition to facilitating interagency coordination and

predictive analysis to protect water quality, such system shall provide

state agency information to the public through a website, within

reasonable limitations to ensure confidentiality and security.

2. The department shall make reasonable efforts to include additional

data, including data from well logs currently required to be filed with

the department pursuant to section 15-1525 of this chapter.

3. Parties required to submit data pursuant to any reporting

requirements set forth in this section shall, upon request of the

department, submit such data in an electronic format acceptable to the

department.