Bill > S04920

This bill modifies how funds from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water Revolving Fund (DWRF) are allocated to municipalities in New York. Currently, these funds have dollar amount limitations, but the bill mandates that moving forward, funds will be distributed proportionally based on each municipality's population, without any fixed dollar amount restrictions. Specifically, the bill amends several sections of New York's Public Authorities Law, Environmental Conservation Law, and Public Health Law to ensure that moneys from these water infrastructure funds are allocated strictly in proportion to municipal population sizes. The key purpose is to create a more equitable funding mechanism for water pollution control and drinking water infrastructure projects, where larger municipalities with more residents would receive a correspondingly larger share of available funds. The bill removes previous language that capped fund allocations and replaces it with language requiring population-proportional distribution, effectively ensuring that funding reflects the size and potential needs of different municipal communities across New York State.

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https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4920