Bill > A00948

This bill modifies how funds from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF) are allocated by the Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) in New York. Currently, these funds may have been subject to dollar amount limitations, but the bill mandates that fund allocations to municipalities must now be proportional to the population of each municipality, without any dollar amount restrictions. This means larger municipalities will receive more funding based on their population size, which could help ensure that water infrastructure and pollution control projects are more equitably funded across different-sized communities. The bill amends several sections of New York's Public Authorities Law, Environmental Conservation Law, and Public Health Law to implement this population-based allocation approach, ensuring that the distribution of funds for water pollution control and drinking water projects is directly tied to the number of residents in each municipality. The changes are designed to create a more standardized and population-driven approach to distributing critical water infrastructure funds.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A948