2006 New York Code - Water Resources Management Strategy; Development Purpose.

 
  § 15-2907. Water resources management strategy; development purpose.
    Not  later  than  January  first,  nineteen  hundred eighty-seven, the
  department of environmental conservation, with the participation of  the
  department  of  health  and  whenever  possible,  regional  planning and
  development boards, shall develop and submit a complete statewide  water
  resources  management  strategy  to the water resources planning council
  for its review and adoption. This strategy shall be composed of substate
  water  resources  management  strategies  which  recognize  the  natural
  boundaries  of  the  water resource basins, watersheds, and aquifers and
  existing significant deficiencies of water supply,  and  which  organize
  these  in  the  most  practical  and  manageable  manner.  Each substate
  management strategy shall analyze the present  and  future  demographic,
  natural  resource, economic development, water quality, and conservation
  requirements of public and private water systems  and  develop  regional
  management  strategies  to  meet  the  water  resources  requirements of
  residential, agricultural, industrial and commercial users  as  well  as
  assure the highest possible quality and quantity of these resources.
    Strategies shall analyze the efficiency and capacity of existing water
  supply  sources  and  facilities  and  shall contain recommendations for
  appropriate modifications, restoration, and expansion or development  of
  new   sources   or   facilities.  Such  strategies  shall  also  include
  evaluations and recommendations  as  to  the  feasibility  of  including
  hydroelectric energy generation facilities as part of the modifications,
  restoration,  and  expansion or development of new or existing resources
  or facilities. The strategy shall also contain recommendations regarding
  implementation of these strategies by  the  department  of  health,  the
  department   of  environmental  conservation,  other  appropriate  state
  agencies, local governments and  special  districts.  In  addition,  the
  departments  shall  submit  to  the  council  substate  water  resources
  management strategies as soon as  such  strategies  are  developed.  The
  departments   shall   also  report  regularly  to  the  council  on  the
  development of the strategies and receive the council's  recommendations
  and  directions.  Such  substate  strategies shall also be available for
  public inspection as soon as such strategies are developed.