2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 58 - Implementation of the "Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act of 2022" › Title 9 - Water Quality Improvement and Resilient Infrastructure › 58-0903 - Programs, Plans and Projects.

§ 58-0903. Programs, plans and projects.
1.  Eligible  water quality improvement project costs include, but are
  not limited to:
a. costs associated with grants to municipalities  for  projects  that
  reduce  or  control storm water runoff, using green infrastructure where
  practicable;
b. costs associated with projects that  reduce  agricultural  nutrient
  runoff  and  promote  soil  health  such  as  projects  which  implement
  comprehensive nutrient management  plans,  other  agricultural  nutrient
  management projects, and non-point source abatement and control programs
  including  projects developed pursuant to sections eleven-a and eleven-b
  of the soil and water conservation districts;
c. costs associated with projects that address  harmful  algal  blooms
  such  as  abatement projects and projects focused on addressing nutrient
  reduction in freshwater and  marine  waters,  wastewater  infrastructure
  systems that treat nitrogen and phosphorus, and lake treatment systems;
d.  costs associated with wastewater infrastructure projects including
  but not limited to extending or  establishing  sewer  lines  to  replace
  failing  septic systems or cesspools and projects as provided by section
  twelve hundred eighty-five-u of the public authorities law;
e. costs associated with projects to reduce, avoid or eliminate  point
  and  non-point  source discharges to water including projects authorized
  by the New York state water improvement infrastructure act of  2017  and
  section twelve hundred eighty-five-s of the public authorities law;
f.  costs  associated  with  the  establishment of riparian buffers to
  provide distance between farm fields and streams or abate erosion during
  high flow events; and
g. costs associated with lead service  line  replacement  pursuant  to
  section eleven hundred fourteen of the public health law.
2.  The  department  and  the  New York state environmental facilities
  corporation are authorized  to  provide  state  assistance  payments  or
  grants  to municipalities for projects authorized pursuant to paragraphs
  a, b, and d of subdivision one of this section.
3. The department of agriculture and markets shall  be  authorized  to
  make  state assistance payments to soil and water conservation districts
  for the  cost  of  implementing  agricultural  environmental  management
  plans, including purchase of equipment for measuring and monitoring soil
  health and soil conditions.
4.   The   department  is  authorized  to  make  grants  available  to
  not-for-profits and academic institutions for paragraphs b, c, and f  of
  subdivision  one  of this section, and make state assistance payments to
  municipalities and undertake projects pursuant to this section.
5. Provided that for the purposes of selecting projects for funding of
  this section, the relevant agencies shall develop eligibility guidelines
  and post information on the department's website  in  the  environmental
  notice  bulletin  providing  for  a thirty-day public comment period and
  upon adoption post such eligibility guidelines on the relevant  agency's
  website.