N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 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.