2010 New York Code
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 55 - (55-0101 - 55-0119) SOLE SOURCE AQUIFER PROTECTION
55-0115 - Comprehensive management plan; contents.

§ 55-0115. Comprehensive management plan; contents.
    The  designated planning entity shall prepare the plan for the special
  groundwater protection area. The plan shall be designed  to  ensure  the
  non-degradation  of the high quality of groundwater recharged within the
  special groundwater protection area. Where  local  plans  already  exist
  which  effectuate  the  goals of this article, such local plans shall be
  evaluated and incorporated as  is  appropriate  into  the  work  of  the
  planning entity. Such plan shall include but not be limited to:
    1.  A  determination  of  the  quality  of  the  existing  groundwater
  recharged through said special groundwater protection area, the  natural
  recharge   capabilities  of  the  special  groundwater  protection  area
  watershed and the dependence of any natural ecosystems  in  the  special
  groundwater  protection  area  on the water quality and natural recharge
  capabilities of said area;
    2. An identification of all known existing  and  potential  point  and
  non-point sources of groundwater degradation;
    3. Development of specific watershed rules and regulations pursuant to
  section  eleven  hundred of the public health law, which are designed to
  accomplish the purposes of this article;
    4. A map showing the detailed  boundary  of  the  special  groundwater
  protection  area  or  areas  as well as a precise written description of
  such boundaries;
    5. A resource assessment which determines the amount and type of human
  development and activity which the ecosystem  can  sustain  while  still
  maintaining  existing  ground  and  surface water quality and protecting
  unique ecological features;
    6. The identification and proposal of limits  on  federal,  state  and
  local  government  financially  assisted  activities and projects which,
  directly or indirectly, may contribute, in any way  whatsoever,  to  any
  degradation  of  such  groundwater  or  any  loss of natural surface and
  subsurface  infiltration  or  purification  capability  of  the  special
  groundwater protection area watershed;
    7.  Development of a comprehensive statement of land use management as
  it pertains to the maintenance and enhancement  of  groundwater  quality
  and quantity;
    8.  Proposal  of limits on land uses that might have an adverse impact
  on water quality and/or recharge capabilities in the special groundwater
  protection area;
    9. Consideration and proposal of specific techniques,  including,  but
  not  limited  to:  clustering,  large  lot zoning, purchase, exchange or
  donation of conservation easements  or  development  rights,  and  other
  innovative  measures  sufficient  to  achieve  the  objectives  of  this
  section;
    10.  Designation  of  specific  areas   within   special   groundwater
  protection areas suitable and appropriate for public acquisition; and
    11.   A   program   for   local  governmental  implementation  of  the
  comprehensive management plan described in this subdivision in a  manner
  that  will  insure the continued, uniform, consistent protection of this
  area in accord with the purposes of this article.