Sentences with phrase «clean water funds»

The board voted to approve a $ 255 million loan from the state clean water fund to pay for parts of the $ 4 billion bridge project.

Using clean water funds to build a bridge is not creative leadership, it is behaving like a kid in a candy store.

Yesterday, the Thruway Authority claimed in a press release that it would save $ 35m in borrowing costs by borrowing $ 255.7 m in Clean Water funds from the Environmental Facilities Corporation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency blocked most of this use of clean water funds, saying the money was intended for localities to reduce their wastewater discharges.

Particularly disturbing is that if Cuomo succeeds in taking — mainly federal — clean water funds for a bridge project, he will open the door for other governors to do the same.

An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.

An independent review board has found fault with the Cuomo Administration's attempts to convert a federal clean water fund loan into construction work for the Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge.

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no but he'd be honest about the cost and what the tolls will be and I doubt he would have shifted clean water funds to build it.

Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 office rejected the diversion of $ 481m of these dedicated clean water funds, while approving $ 29.1 m.

There have been eight newspaper editorials opposing or questioning the raid on Clean Water Funds.

The TU says just because the state might be legally able to lend the Thruway Authority $ 511 million from a revolving clean water fund doesn't mean it should do so.

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The Republican state budget plan includes support for $ 2 billion in clean water funding proposed in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's executive budget to be used in the short term.

Environmentalists, elected officials and newspaper editorial boards across the state called the loan into question since clean water funds are typically used to pay for sewer repair projects.

The EPA may well question how the EFC intends to honor its fiduciary responsibilities when it comes to managing roughly a billion dollars in clean water funds it controls as well as millions in future annual grants.

A coalition of environmental and advocacy organizations and Assembly members met via conference call on Thursday to express their dismay over the approval by the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to use, for the first time, clean water funds for a transportation project.

«She was the one to back up our claims that they were raiding clean water funds.

Westchester County Executive and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino pounced on the news that the EPA has rejected the bulk of a controversial loan from a state clean water fund to pay for projects related to the new Tappan Zee Bridge, saying the cash was just one more «myth» of the Cuomo administration that is being exposed.

In a letter sent to the state on Tuesday, the E.P.A. determined that $ 29 million of the plan to build the Tappan Zee bridge is a valid use of clean water funds.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to use clean water funds to help pay for the new Tappan Zee Bridge has been approved by a key state board.

A scheduled vote today by the Public Authorities Control Board on a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is being closely watched by federal regulators and lawmakers across the state.

The Cuomo administration had a flip response for Assemblyman Tom Abinanti when he dared question the use of $ 511 million in clean water funds to help pay for a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The clean water funds are a mixture of federal grants and repaid clean water loans, and state officials have contested EPA's authority over the funds.

Governor Cuomo's recent efforts to use $ 511 million in Clean Water funds to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge has been blasted in seven newspaper editorials, as well as by a coalition of environmental and good government groups that includes Reinvent Albany.

Unfortunately, Governor Cuomo intends to use the clean water funds to tear down the old TZ Bridge and other construction tasks associated with the $ 3.9 billion bridge replacement project.

The loan was only recently made public by the Cuomo administration, which said the Clean Water Fund money would be used to protect the Hudson River estuary rather than simply support construction.

The EPA had oversight over the clean water funds, and the administration had to back off its original plan.

ALBANY — A member of the board that will take up a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee bridge replacement project is asking that it be withdrawn.

First comes that concern that this is a bad precedent — that the state will come to see the clean water fund as a routine source of «temporary» financing.

Lockport Mayor Anne McCaffrey in a letter to the governor wrote the proposed $ 2 billion clean water fund is «welcome news» for municipalities that want to upgrade their water needs.

«There is no evidence that borrowing from the Clean Water fund will save money in the long run on the cost of the construction of these two spans across the Hudson River,» says Abinanti.

Several environmental advocacy groups have lodged a formal protest against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan to help pay for a new Tappan Zee Bridge using $ 511 million in loans from a clean water fund.

«We are taking money out of a clean water fund that is desperately needed to pay for clean water and sewer projects throughout the state,» Abinanti says.

A key oversight board approved half of the amount Gov. Andrew Cuomo had sought for a loan from a clean water fund to help pay for the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raid the state's clean water fund to help pay for the New York Thruway's Tappan Zee bridge replacement.

The Clean Water fund is a federal grant program that provides loans to eligible recipients.

After a string of water contamination issues across the state, the Gotham Gazette reassesses he episode in which the Cuomo administration sought to use clean water funds to pay for the Tappan Zee Bridge construction.

Cuomo also said the state would pledge $ 1 million in clean water funds to help pay for water filtration systems.

Adam, a $ 10,000 - a-month consultant for AbTech, eventually lost his job with the firm when he couldn't help expedite payments to AbTech from the Nassau contract, despite assurances his father was pushing legislation on public - private partnerships and a potential $ 800 million clean water fund that would have helped the company's bottom line.

EFC Chair Matt Driscoll concedes, though that the EPA could force the return of the loan after the fact, if federal officials determine the use of the clean water funds to go towards building a bridge is not appropriate.

Environmentalists object to the use of money from the clean water fund for the bridge construction project.

«We want them to reject what the Cuomo Administration would like to do in terms of raiding these clean water funds for the use of a bridge,» Iwanowicz said.

Newspaper editorials from around the state agree with the environmental groups that using the clean water funds to help build the bridge is a bad idea, using terms like «pilfering,» calling it a betrayal of Governor Cuomo's pledge to conduct a transparent process to build the new bridge.

ALBANY — A scheduled vote today by the Public Authorities Control Board on a controversial plan to move $ 511 million in clean water funds to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project is being closely watched by federal regulators and lawmakers across the state.

State officials insist it's a legal use of the funds and that they don't need approval from E.P.A., which has provided some of the money to the Clean Water Fund.

Pete Seeger must have rolled over in his grave Monday when Governor Cuomo announced a half - billion dollars from a state clean water fund will be diverted to the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project.