Requires no less than two percent of all state competitive grants for water quality infrastructure projects to be awarded to municipalities located in the Adirondack park and Catskill park.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7325
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to competitive grants
for water quality infrastructure projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section
2 54-n to read as follows:
3 § 54-n. Competitive grants for water quality infrastructure projects.
4 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary,
5 no less than two percent of all state competitive grants for water qual-
6 ity infrastructure projects awarded after the effective date of this
7 section shall be awarded to municipalities located in the Adirondack
8 park and Catskill park, as defined by section 9-0101 of the environ-
9 mental conservation law, including but not limited to, all grants
10 awarded under title nine of article fifty-eight of the environmental
11 conservation law and under the clean water infrastructure act of two
12 thousand seventeen, as amended.
13 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "water quality infras-
14 tructure project" shall mean "sewage treatment works", as defined by
15 section 17-1903 of the environmental conservation law; "eligible
16 project", as defined by paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e) of subdivision
17 four of section eleven hundred sixty of the public health law; "stormwa-
18 ter collecting system", as defined by subdivision twenty-seven of
19 section 56-0101 of the environmental conservation law; or septic system.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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