Section 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 which have
  been (a) approved by  the  commissioner,  (b)  identified  in  plans  in
  accordance  with section 1455b of the federal costal 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.