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A1649Assembly2019-2020 Session

Fund Emergency Water Grants

Official title

“Makes an appropriation to the environmental facilities corporation for emergency municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure grants”

Sponsor Angelo SantabarbaraAD-111Affects Finance
Status
In Assembly Committee
Ways And Means
Impact
7/10
Significant
Passage
0%

Bill progress

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In committee · Ways And Means

What's happening

This bill appropriates $100 million for emergency municipal drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure grants in New York.

Why it matters

  1. Targets urgent threats. The funding is specifically aimed at infrastructure projects where there’s an imminent risk to public health or the environment, meaning money will go toward the most critical needs, such as contaminated drinking water supplies or failing wastewater systems.

  2. Rapid availability. The appropriation is made “immediately available,” suggesting a focus on quick response to emergencies rather than long bureaucratic delays, which could help municipalities respond faster to crises.

  3. Local impact. By directing funds to municipal (local government) projects, the bill empowers towns and cities to address infrastructure failures that directly affect residents’ everyday lives, such as boil-water advisories, sewage overflows, or flooding.

  4. Administrative oversight. The Environmental Facilities Corporation will oversee the grant process, and the state comptroller will audit payments, adding layers of accountability and oversight to ensure funds are used appropriately.

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Fund Emergency Water Grants

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Angelo Santabarbara

Assembly Member · Assembly District 111

Chair, People with Disabilities

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1649

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 16, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT making an appropriation to the environmental facilities corporation for emergency municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure grants

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) is hereby appropriated to the environmental facilities corporation out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purposes of providing emergency municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure grants for infrastructure projects where there is an imminent threat to the environment and/or the public health. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the environmental facilities corporation.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD06441-01-9

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