STATE OF NEW YORK
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3862
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT in relation to providing certain funding for the brownfield
opportunity area program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Of the one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) appropri-
2 ated to the department of environmental conservation pursuant to the
3 capital projects budget for state fiscal year 2019-2020 for payment of
4 the state share of the costs of hazardous waste site remediation
5 projects, in accordance with title 13 of article 27 of the environmental
6 conservation law and section 97-b of the state finance law, for
7 projects, and for payment of state costs associated with the remediation
8 of offsite contamination at significant threat sites as provided for in
9 section 27-1411 of the environmental conservation law, including
10 personal service and fringe benefits of the departments of environmental
11 conservation, health and law and including suballocations to the depart-
12 ments of health and law and including costs incidental and appurtenant
13 thereto, provided that a portion of such amount may be available for
14 environmental restoration projects in accordance with title 5 of article
15 56 of the environmental conservation law, five million dollars
16 ($5,000,000) shall be dedicated and made available solely for the
17 purposes of providing funding for the brownfield opportunity area
18 program established pursuant to section 970-r of the general municipal
19 law.
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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