Section 15-3301. Water withdrawal reporting

1.  Any  person  who withdraws or is operating any system or method of
  withdrawal that has the capacity to withdraw more than  100,000  gallons
  of groundwater or surface water per day at a single tract of land, water
  source  or  place  of  business shall file a report with the department.
  Such report shall be filed on or before February first, two thousand ten
  and every February first thereafter. Any report filed  in  two  thousand
  ten  shall  be  based  on  those  calendar  months  commencing after the
  effective date of this section. The report shall be made on a  form  and
  contain  such  information  as  may  be prescribed by the department and
  shall be based on the water withdrawals for the previous calendar  year,
  and shall include but not be limited to:
    (a)  the water source, the location of the water source and the source
  capacity if known;
    (b) the amount of water withdrawn for the reporting period,  including
  the   average  or  peak  withdrawals  for  intervals  specified  by  the
  department;
    (c) a description of the use of the water withdrawn; and
    (d) estimated amounts of water to be returned, if any,  the  locations
  of such returns and the method of such returns.
    2.  The  following  water  withdrawals  are  exempt from the reporting
  requirements of subdivision one of this section:
    (a) a withdrawal  for  emergency  fire  suppression  or  other  public
  emergency purposes;
    (b)  a  withdrawal  reported  to the department under any program that
  requires  the  reporting  of  substantially  similar   data,   including
  withdrawals  regulated  pursuant to the Susquehanna River Basin Compact,
  the Delaware River Basin Compact, the  Great  Lakes-St.  Lawrence  River
  Basin  Water Resources Compact, public water supply permits, permits for
  Long Island water wells and permits issued pursuant to  section  15-1505
  of  this  article. The department shall record such withdrawals with the
  information from water withdrawals reported under this paragraph;
    (c) closed loop, standing column, or similar non-extractive geothermal
  heat pumps; and
    (d) reclaimed wastewater withdrawn for reuse.
    3. All persons required to make a report under this title, except  for
  withdrawals  for  an  agricultural purpose and for a public water supply
  purpose, shall submit to the department a fee with  such  report  in  an
  amount   of   fifty  dollars.  For  the  purpose  of  this  subdivision,
  "agricultural purpose" means the practice of farming for crops,  plants,
  vines  and  trees, and the keeping, grazing, or feeding of livestock for
  sale of livestock  or  livestock  products;  and  "public  water  supply
  purpose" shall mean water use by a public water supply system.
    4.  Revenue received from the reporting fees shall be deposited to the
  credit of the environmental  protection  fund  established  pursuant  to
  section ninety-two-s of the state finance law.