2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 27 - Collection, Treatment and Disposal of Refuse and Other Solid Waste › Title 12 - Mitigation and Remediation of Certain Solid Waste Sites and Drinking Water Contamination › 27-1207 - Use and Reporting of the Solid Waste Mitigation Program and the Drinking Water Response Program.

§ 27-1207.  Use  and reporting of the solid waste mitigation program and
the drinking water response program.
1. Pursuant to the clean water  infrastructure  act  of  two  thousand
  seventeen  and  within  the  up  to  one  hundred thirty million dollars
  appropriated for such purposes, mitigation and  remediation  efforts  to
  address  public  drinking water contamination from emerging contaminants
  and solid waste sites causing or substantially contributing to  drinking
  water  impairment  that  impacts  public  health  may  be  conducted  in
  accordance with this title.
2. The solid waste mitigation program shall receive no more than fifty
  million dollars from the clean water infrastructure act of 2017  and  be
  made  available  to  the  department  and  the  department of health, as
  applicable, for the following purposes:
a. enumeration and assessment of solid waste sites;
b. investigation and environmental  characterization  of  solid  waste
  sites, including environmental sampling;
c. mitigation and remediation of solid waste sites;
d. monitoring of solid waste sites; and
e.  administration  and  enforcement  of  the  requirements of section
  27-1203 of this title.
3. The drinking water response program  shall  receive  no  more  than
  twenty  million dollars annually from the clean water infrastructure act
  of 2017 and be made available to the department and  the  department  of
  health, as applicable, for the following purposes:
a. mitigation of drinking water contamination;
b. investigation of drinking water contamination;
c. remediation of drinking water contamination; and
d.  administration  and  enforcement of the requirements of this title
  except the provisions of section 27-1203.
4. On or before July first, two thousand nineteen and  July  first  of
  each  succeeding  year, the department shall report on the status of the
  programs. Such status report shall reflect information available to  the
  department  as  of  March  thirty-first  of each year, and shall include
  information regarding the number  of  sites  referred  to  the  inactive
  hazardous  waste  disposal  site  remedial  program based on information
  obtained pursuant to this title and an accounting of all monies expended
  or encumbered from the clean water infrastructure act  of  two  thousand
  seventeen   during   the  preceding  fiscal  year,  such  accounting  to
  separately list:
a. monies expended or encumbered for the purpose  of  conducting  site
  investigations;
b.  monies  expended  or  encumbered  for  the  purpose  of conducting
  remedial investigations and feasibility studies;
c. monies expended for mitigation and remediation measures; and
d. an accounting of payments received and  payments  obligated  to  be
  received  pursuant  to  this  title,  and  a  report of the department's
  attempts to secure such obligations.
5.  all  moneys  recovered  pursuant  to  title  twelve   of   article
  twenty-seven  of  this  chapter  shall  be  deposited  into  the capital
  projects fund (30000), provided that such moneys recovered shall be used
  for the same purposes as are authorized by this title.