2018 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 54 - Environmental Protection Act
Title 11 - Local Waterfront Revitalization Plans and Coastal Rehabilitation Projects
54-1101 - Local Waterfront Revitalization Programs.

§ 54-1101. Local waterfront revitalization programs.
1.  The  secretary  is  authorized  to provide on a competitive basis,
  within amounts appropriated, state assistance payments and/or  technical
  assistance as defined in section nine hundred seventeen of the executive
  law,  to  municipalities  toward the development of any local waterfront
  revitalization program, pursuant to article forty-two of  the  executive
  law  including  planning  projects  to  mitigate future physical climate
  risks and updates to existing local  waterfront  revitalization  program
  plans  to mitigate future physical climate risks. Eligible costs include
  planning, studies, preparation of local laws, and construction projects.
2. State assistance payments and/or technical assistance,  as  defined
  in section nine hundred seventeen of the executive law, shall not exceed
  seventy-five  percent  of  the cost of the program provided, however, in
  environmental  justice  communities,  such  assistance  payments  and/or
  technical assistance shall not exceed eighty-five percent of the cost of
  the  program.  For  the  purpose  of  determining  the  amount  of state
  assistance payments, costs shall not be more than the amount  set  forth
  in  the  application  for  state  assistance  payments  approved  by the
  secretary. The state assistance payments shall  be  paid  on  audit  and
  warrant of the state comptroller on a certificate of availability of the
  director of the budget.
3. The secretary shall have the power to approve vouchers for payments
  pursuant to an approved contract.
4.  No  moneys  shall be expended as authorized by this section except
  pursuant to an appropriation therefor.
5. The  secretary  shall  impose  such  contractual  requirements  and
  conditions   upon  any  municipality  which  receives  state  assistance
  payments pursuant to this article as may be necessary and appropriate to
  ensure that a public benefit shall accrue from the use of such funds  by
  the  municipality  including  but  not  limited to, a demonstration that
  future physical climate risk due to sea level rise, and/or storm  surges
  and/or  flooding,  based  on available data predicting the likelihood of
  future extreme weather events, including hazard risk  analysis  data  if
  applicable, has been considered.