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Department of Environmental Protection
Data Current as of:  8/19/2015





FISCAL YEAR 2016 BUDGET SUMMARY ($000)
ACCOUNT FY2016
Conference
FY2016
Vetoes
FY2016
Overrides
FY2016
GAA
Department of Environmental Protection Administration 29,521 -325 325 29,521
Wetlands Permitting Fee Retained Revenue 650 0 0 650
Recycling and Solid Waste Master Plan Operations 475 -25 25 475
Compliance and Permitting 2,500 0 0 2,500
Compliance and Permitting Fee Retained Revenue 2,500 0 0 2,500
Toxics Use Retained Revenue 3,168 0 0 3,168
Clean Air Act 848 0 0 848
Clean Air Act Operating Permit and Compliance Program 1,528 0 0 1,528
Safe Drinking Water Act 1,530 0 0 1,530
Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program 14,410 0 0 14,410
Brownfields Site Audit Program 1,215 0 0 1,215
Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup 395 0 0 395
TOTAL    58,739 -350 350 58,739

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account description amount
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 81,903,384
Direct Appropriations
2200-0100 Department of Environmental Protection Administration
For the operation of the department of environmental protection, including the environmental strike force, the bureau of planning and evaluation, the bureau of resource protection, the bureau of waste prevention, the Senator William X. Wall Experiment Station and a contract with the University of Massachusetts for environmental research; provided, that section 3B of chapter 7 of the General Laws shall not apply to fees established under section 18 of chapter 21A of the General Laws; provided further, that not less than $150,000 shall be expended for brownfields assessment and remediation in the city of Everett; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended for the Buzzards Bay Coalition, Inc. and Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Inc., in conjunction with the Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, for a coastal water quality monitoring program in Buzzards Bay, Vineyard sound, Nantucket sound and Cape Cod Bay; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended to the Cape Cod conservation district to fund feasibility studies and conceptual plans for coastal restoration projects on Cape Cod; and provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended to enter into an agreement with a nonprofit organization to operate a water quality monitoring program in the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord rivers
29,520,620
2200-0107 Recycling and Solid Waste Master Plan Operations
For technical assistance, grants and support of efforts consistent with the Massachusetts Recycling and Solid Waste Master Plan and the Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan; provided, that funds may be expended for a recycling industries reimbursement grant program pursuant to section 241 of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997; and provided further, that not less than $25,000 shall be expended for environmental improvements at the transfer station in the town of Sherborn
475,000
2200-0109 Compliance and Permitting
For the department of environmental protection for the sole purpose of ensuring sufficient staff for timely permit decisions and compliance assurance
2,500,000
2220-2220 Clean Air Act
For the administration and implementation of the federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq. including the operating permit program, the emissions banking program, the auto-related state implementation program, the low emission vehicle program, the non-auto-related state implementation program and the commonwealth's commitments under the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers Climate Change Action Plan for reducing acid rain deposition and mercury emissions
847,831
2220-2221 Clean Air Act Operating Permit and Compliance Program
For the administration and implementation of the operating permit and compliance program required under the federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq
1,527,547
2250-2000 Safe Drinking Water Act
For the commonwealth's implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, Public Law 93-52, as amended, under section 18A of chapter 21A of the General Laws
1,529,649
2260-8870 Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program
For the expenses of the hazardous waste cleanup and underground storage tank programs including, but not limited to, monitoring unlined landfills, notwithstanding section 4 of chapter 21J of the General Laws
14,409,902
2260-8872 Brownfields Site Audit Program
For the brownfields site audit program
1,215,241
2260-8881 Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup
For the operation of the board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals, notwithstanding section 19A of chapter 21A of the General Laws
394,761

account description amount
Retained Revenues
2200-0102 Wetlands Permitting Fee Retained Revenue
For the department of environmental protection, which may expend an amount not to exceed $650,151 collected from fees for wetland permits; provided, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system
650,151
2200-0112 Compliance and Permitting Fee Retained Revenue
For the department of environmental protection, which may expend an amount not to exceed $2,500,000 collected from permit and compliance fees for the sole purpose of ensuring sufficient staff for timely permit decisions and compliance assurance; provided, that if: (i) this item is abolished or reduced in fiscal year 2016; or (ii) operational funding for the department falls below the level authorized in the general appropriation act for fiscal year 2015 excluding appropriations for earmarks and nonrecurring operating costs, the fee increase supporting this item shall terminate; and provided further, that for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system
2,500,000
2210-0106 Toxics Use Retained Revenue
For the department of environmental protection, which may expend for the administration and implementation of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, pursuant to chapter 21I of the General Laws, an amount not to exceed $3,168,361 from the revenue collected from fees, penalties, grants and tuition under said chapter 21I; provided, that the department shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than February 1, 2016 detailing the status of the department's progress in meeting the statutory and regulatory deadlines associated with said chapter 21I and detailing the number of full-time equivalent positions assigned to various implementation requirements of said chapter 21I; provided further, that not less than $1,629,860 from this item shall be made available for the operation of the toxics use reduction institute program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell; provided further, that the department shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the University of Massachusetts to make such funding available for this purpose; provided further, that not less than $644,096 from this item shall be made available for toxics use reduction technical assistance and technology in accordance with said chapter 21I; provided further, that the department shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the executive office for energy and environmental affairs to make such funding available for this purpose; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special laws to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between the receipt of revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system
3,168,361

account description amount
Federal Grant Spending 23,164,321
2200-9706 Water Quality Management Planning
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Water Quality Management Planning
519,913
2200-9712 Cooperative Agreement Leaking Underground Storage Tank
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Cooperative Agreement-Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
856,364
2200-9717 Department of Defense State Memorandum of Agreement
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program
1,300,000
2200-9724 Superfund Block Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Superfund Block Grant
856,000
2200-9728 Brownfields Assessment Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Brownfields Assessment Program
278,140
2200-9731 Brownfields Response
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Brownfields Response
1,074,291
2230-9702 Performance Partnership Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Performance Partnership Grant
15,185,962
2240-9773 Technical Assistance and Training for Drinking Water
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Technical Assistance and Training for Drinking Water
4,084
2240-9777 Public Water Supply Supervision Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Public Water Supply Supervision
12,586
2240-9778 Healthy Communities Grant Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Healthy Communities Grant Program
16,750
2250-9712 Clean Air Act Section 103
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Clean Air Act Section 103
545,888
2250-9716 Ambient Air Toxics Pilot Project
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Ambient Air Toxics Pilot Project
63,323
2250-9726 Homeland Security Co-Op Agreement
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Homeland Security Co-op Agreement
1,400,000
2250-9732 Underground Storage Tank Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Underground Storage Program
595,419
2250-9736 Massachusetts Clean Diesel
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Massachusetts Clean Diesel
236,091
2250-9738 Airport Lead Ambient
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Airport Lead Ambient
61,868
2250-9739 Near Road Number 2 Ambient Air Monitoring Network
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Near Road Number 2 Ambient Air Monitoring Network
130,483
2250-9741 MA Clean Diesel Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, MA Clean Diesel Program
27,159

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