2019 New York Laws
ENV - Environmental Conservation
Article 54 - Environmental Protection Act
Title 11 - Local Waterfront Revitalization Plans and Coastal Rehabilitation Projects
54-1105 - State Assistance Payments for Coastal Rehabilitation Projects.

§ 54-1105. State   assistance   payments   for   coastal  rehabilitation
           projects.
1. The commissioner is authorized to provide on a  competitive  basis,
  within amounts appropriated, state assistance payments to a municipality
  or   a  not-for-profit  corporation  toward  the  cost  of  any  coastal
  rehabilitation project approved by the commissioner  provided  that  the
  commissioner  determines  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.
2.  The  commissioner and a municipality or not-for-profit corporation
  may  enter  into  a  contract  for  the   undertaking   of   a   coastal
  rehabilitation  project.  Such  project  shall  be  recommended  to  the
  commissioner by the governing body of the municipality or not-for-profit
  corporation as that term is  defined  pursuant  to  subdivision  six  of
  section  54-0101,  and  when approved by the commissioner, undertaken by
  the municipality or not-for-profit corporation pursuant to this  article
  and any other applicable provisions of law.
3.  State  assistance  payments  shall not exceed fifty percent of the
  project cost or two million dollars, whichever is less. Such  costs  are
  subject  to final computation and determination by the commissioner upon
  completion of the project, and shall not  exceed  the  maximum  eligible
  cost set forth in the contract.
4.  Prior  to  processing  applications  for state assistance payments
  toward the cost of coastal  rehabilitation  projects,  the  commissioner
  shall  promulgate rules and regulations which shall include criteria for
  determining eligible  expenditures  and  procedures  for  governing  the
  commitment  and  disbursement  of  funds appropriated in accordance with
  this title. The commissioner shall also promulgate rules and regulations
  which  shall  include  application  procedures,  review  processes,  and
  project   approval  guidelines  and  criteria  consistent  with  section
  54-1107.