File #: Int 0032-2024    Version: * Name: Annual report on drainage infrastructure.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an annual report on drainage infrastructure
Sponsors: James F. Gennaro, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, Althea V. Stevens, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Gale A. Brewer, Diana I. Ayala, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Kevin C. Riley, Lynn C. Schulman, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Sandra Ung
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Environmental Protection to issue an annual report on the condition of critical water drainage infrastructure within the City. It would further require a description of all outages that occurred in the previous year – detailing the length and severity of the outage, as well as the steps taken to resolve it.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 32, 2. Int. No. 32, 3. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24

Int. No. 32

By Council Members Gennaro, Louis, Restler, Stevens, Gutiérrez, Brewer, Ayala, Sanchez, Riley, Schulman, Avilés, Hanif and Ung

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an annual report on drainage infrastructure

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 24 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 24-532 to read as follows:

                     § 24-532 Annual report on drainage infrastructure. a. No later than February 1 of each year, the commissioner of environmental protection shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report on the condition of municipal drainage infrastructure.

b. The report required by subdivision a of this section shall include, but need not be limited to, the following information:

1. A description of the current operational condition of all treatment locations, wastewater pump stations, sewer regulators and other critical drainage infrastructure; and

2. For every instance in the previous year where infrastructure was either out of service or operating at a reduced capacity;

(a) A description of the affected infrastructure;

(b) The length of the disruption;

(c) Whether such disruption was partial or full;

(d) The cause of the disruption; and

(e) A description of any actions, whether conducted or planned, in response.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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