§ 97-l. Sewage treatment program management and administration 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 "sewage treatment program management and administration fund".
2. The sewage treatment program management and administration fund may consist of (a) all moneys transferred to the state from the water pollution control revolving fund pursuant to section twelve hundred eighty-five-j of the public authorities law, (b) all or a portion of moneys made available to New York state for the purposes of administering and managing financial assistance provided to municipalities from the water pollution control revolving fund pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and (c) all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no money reserved for planning pursuant to section six hundred four (b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act shall be deposited in the sewage treatment program management and administration fund.
3. Moneys in the sewage treatment program management and administration fund shall be kept separately from and shall not be commingled with any other moneys in the custody of the state comptroller.
4. Moneys in such fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may be used, for the purpose of paying all costs of the department of environmental conservation and New York state environmental facilities corporation for management and administration of the sewage treatment program established by section 17-1909 of the environmental conservation law and of the water pollution control revolving fund established by section twelve hundred eighty-five-j of the public authorities law.
