§ 99-rr. Air quality improvement fund. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation\nand finance a fund to be known as the "air quality improvement fund".\n 2. Such fund shall consist of revenues received by the state pursuant\nto section 19-0328 of the environmental conservation law and all other\nmoneys, appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other\nfund or source pursuant to law.\n 3. All moneys of the air quality improvement fund, following\nappropriation by the legislature, shall be made available for the\npurposes of reducing air pollution and improving or enhancing air\nquality in affected communities, including but not limited to:
(a)\nmeasures related to achieving the national ambient air quality\nsta
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§ 99-rr. Air quality improvement fund. 1. There is hereby established\nin the joint custody of the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation\nand finance a fund to be known as the "air quality improvement fund".\n 2. Such fund shall consist of revenues received by the state pursuant\nto section 19-0328 of the environmental conservation law and all other\nmoneys, appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other\nfund or source pursuant to law.\n 3. All moneys of the air quality improvement fund, following\nappropriation by the legislature, shall be made available for the\npurposes of reducing air pollution and improving or enhancing air\nquality in affected communities, including but not limited to: (a)\nmeasures related to achieving the national ambient air quality\nstandards, including community level projects to reduce or eliminate air\npollution from stationary and/or mobile sources of air pollution; and\n(b) investments which are consistent with the strategies and community\nemissions reduction programs prepared pursuant to section 75-0115 of the\nenvironmental conservation law. Any moneys expended from the fund shall\nensure that disadvantaged communities, as defined in subdivision five of\nsection 75-0101 of the environmental conservation law, receive overall\nbenefits that approximate the proportion of disadvantaged communities in\nthe applicable federally designated area of nonattainment in New York,\nprovided that such communities shall not receive less than thirty-five\npercent of the benefit of such funds.\n 4. Moneys shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of\nthe comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner\nof environmental conservation.\n