2020 New York Laws
STF - State Finance
Article 6 - Funds of the State
97-EE - New York Great Lakes Protection Fund.

§  97-ee.  New  York  Great  Lakes protection fund. 1. There is hereby
established in the joint  custody  of  the  state  comptroller  and  the
commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the "New York
Great  Lakes  protection  fund".  Such  fund  shall  consist of revenues
received from the Great Lakes protection  fund  and  all  other  moneys,
credited  or  transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant
to law.
  2. Moneys of the New York Great Lakes protection fund, within  amounts
appropriated  by  the  legislature, may be expended only for programs or
grants to  supplement  existing  Great  Lakes  research  and  protection
programs consistent with the purposes of the Great Lakes protection fund
agreement including the following:
  (a)  Research  on the economic, environmental and human health effects
of contamination in the Great Lakes;
  (b) The collection and analysis of data on the Great Lakes;
  (c)  The  development  of  new  or  improved   environmental   cleanup
technologies applicable to the Great Lakes;
  (d) Research to assess the effectiveness of pollution control policies
affecting the Great Lakes; and
  (e)  The  assessment  of the health of the Great Lakes fish, wildlife,
waterfowl and other organisms.
  3. Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit  and  warrant  of
the   state  comptroller  on  vouchers  certified  or  approved  by  the
commissioner of the department of  environmental  conservation,  as  the
contract  administrator for the New York Great Lakes protection program,
for which the  department  will  enter  into  contracts  with  qualified
parties  to  carry  out  the  program submitted by the Great Lakes Basin
advisory council.
  4. Any income earned on moneys in the New York Great Lakes  protection
fund shall be added to and used for the purposes of such fund.