2023 New York Laws › ENV - Environmental Conservation › Article 56 - Implementation of the Clean Water/clean Air Bond Act of 1996 › Title 3 - Clean Water Projects › 56-0303 - Management Programs, Plans and Projects.

§ 56-0303. Management programs, plans and projects.
1. Of the moneys received by the state from the sale of bonds pursuant
to  the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act of 1996, five hundred twenty-five
million dollars ($525,000,000)  shall  be  allocated  to  water  quality
improvement projects identified as follows:
(a)  Twenty-five  million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be available for
state assistance payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost  of  water
quality  improvement  projects  intended  to  implement the Hudson River
estuary plan as set forth in section 11-0306 of this chapter.
(b) Two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available  for
state  assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost of water
quality improvement projects intended to implement the Long Island Sound
comprehensive conservation and management  plan  developed  pursuant  to
section 320 of the federal clean water act.
(c) Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be available for state
assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the cost of water quality
improvement projects intended to implement the Lake Champlain management
plan  developed  pursuant  to  the  federal   Lake   Champlain   special
designation act of 1990.
(d)  Seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) shall be available for
state assistance payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost  of  water
quality  improvement  projects  intended  to implement the Onondaga Lake
plan developed pursuant to the consent order issued by the United States
District Court for the Northern District of New  York  agreed  to  among
Onondaga  County,  the  state of New York, and the Atlantic States Legal
Foundation, Inc. Provided, however, that such municipality shall  adhere
to  the  construction timetable set forth in said plan and shall provide
the department  with  periodic  updates  as  to  the  progress  of  said
construction and the prospect of any pilot or demonstration technologies
set  forth  in  said plan. The commissioner shall have discretion not to
make any disbursement until these conditions have been met to his or her
satisfaction and upon the approval of the state comptroller.
(e) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be  available  for
state  assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost of water
quality improvement projects intended  to  implement  the  New  York/New
Jersey  harbor comprehensive conservation and management plan, developed
pursuant to section 320 of the federal clean water act.
(f) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be  available  for
state  assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost of water
quality improvement projects  intended  to  implement  the  department's
great lakes program developed in accordance with the federal great lakes
critical  programs  act  of  1990  and  the  great  lakes  water quality
agreement of 1987, as amended, between the governments of Canada and the
United States of America.
(g) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be  available  for
state  assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the  cost of water
quality improvement projects for the finger lakes and their  tributaries
which  are  approved  by  the  secretary  of  state  pursuant to article
forty-two of the executive law or by the commissioner.
(h) For state assistance  payments  for  the  cost  of  water  quality
improvement  projects  intended for any waters of the state for projects
to support a study of groundwater quality in Long Island or  open  space
land   conservation  projects  which  have  been  (a)  approved  by  the
commissioner, (b) identified in plans in accordance with  section  1455b
of  the  federal coastal zone management act or article forty-two of the
executive law and approved by the secretary of state, or  (c)  developed
in  accordance  with title eleven-b of article two of the soil and water

conservation districts law and approved by  the  state  soil  and  water
conservation committee and commissioner of agriculture and markets.
(i)  Twenty-five  million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be available for
the expenses of projects at facilities owned by the state  of  New  York
which  enhance  the  quality  of  the  waters  of the state by remedying
environmental deficiencies or  complying  with  environmental  laws  and
regulations.
(j)   Fifty  million  dollars  ($50,000,000)  shall  be  available  to
municipalities for wastewater treatment  improvement  projects  and  the
cost  of municipal flood control projects in villages, towns, and cities
with a population of seventy-five thousand or less.
(k) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be available for  state
assistance  payments  to  municipalities  for  the cost of water quality
improvement   projects   intended   to   implement   the   comprehensive
conservation  management plan for the peconic estuary developed pursuant
to section 320 of the federal clean water act and for the  comprehensive
management  plan  for  the  south  shore  estuary reserve plan developed
pursuant to article forty-six of the executive law.
(l) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be available for  state
assistance  payments through the environmental facilities corporation to
villages, towns, and cities with a population of less than one  million,
for  environmental  compliance  assistance projects for businesses which
enhance the quality of the waters of the state through  compliance  with
environmental   laws   and   regulations,   or   to  remedy  or  prevent
environmental deficiencies.
(1) The president  of  the  environmental  facilities  corporation  is
authorized  to provide state assistance payments to villages, towns, and
cities with a population less than one million,  for  implementation  of
environmental  compliance  assistance projects which enhance the quality
of the waters of the state.
(2) A village, town, and city with  a  population  of  less  than  one
million  may  submit  an  application to the president, in such form and
manner as the president  may  require,  for  state  assistance  payments
toward the cost of environmental compliance assistance projects.
(3)  Upon  receipt  of a request for state assistance application, the
president shall review and, within ninety days from  the  receipt  of  a
complete    application,   may   approve,   disapprove,   or   recommend
modifications  thereto  consistent   with   applicable   law   criteria,
standards, or rules and regulations relative to such projects.
(m)  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law to the contrary, amounts
allocated in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f)  and  (g)  of  this
subdivision  may  be  interchanged  between  such  paragraphs and may be
interchanged to amounts allocated in paragraph (h) of this subdivision.
2. At least three wastewater  treatment  improvement  projects  funded
pursuant  to  this title shall be projects designed to refine innovative
technologies for use in the physical environment of New York  state  and
serve  as  a  catalyst  for  technology  transfer. Such technologies may
include, but shall not be  limited  to,  technologies  that  reduce  the
amount  and toxicity of sewage sludge and effluent; increase reliability
and cost efficiency; reduce energy consumption; or achieve more reliable
pathogen destruction.