N.Y. State Finance Law § 99-rr: Air quality improvement fund

§ 99-rr. Air quality improvement fund. 1. There is hereby established

in the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation

and finance a fund to be known as the "air quality improvement fund".

2. Such fund shall consist of revenues received by the state pursuant

to section 19-0328 of the environmental conservation law and all other

moneys, appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other

fund or source pursuant to law.

3. All moneys of the air quality improvement fund, following

appropriation by the legislature, shall be made available for the

purposes of reducing air pollution and improving or enhancing air

quality in affected communities, including but not limited to: (a)

measures related to achieving the national ambient air quality

standards, including community level projects to reduce or eliminate air

pollution from stationary and/or mobile sources of air pollution; and

(b) investments which are consistent with the strategies and community

emissions reduction programs prepared pursuant to section 75-0115 of the

environmental conservation law. Any moneys expended from the fund shall

ensure that disadvantaged communities, as defined in subdivision five of

section 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, receive overall

benefits that approximate the proportion of disadvantaged communities in

the applicable federally designated area of nonattainment in New York,

provided that such communities shall not receive less than thirty-five

percent of the benefit of such funds.

4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of

the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner

of environmental conservation.