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Department of Environmental Protection
| DEPARTMENT | FY 2017 Budgetary Recommendations |
FY 2017 Federal, Trust, and ISF |
FY 2017 Total Spending |
FY 2017 Budgetary Non-Tax Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Environmental Protection | 51,338 | 44,500 | 95,838 | 32,482 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | 95,837,775 | |
| Budgetary Direct Appropriations | 51,338,082 | |
| 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 water resources, the bureau of air and waste, 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 |
25,053,967 |
| 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 climate protection plan; provided, that funds may be expended for a recycling industry reimbursement grant program pursuant to section 241 of chapter 43 of the acts of 1997 |
449,985 |
| 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 at 42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq., as amended, 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/Eastern Canadian Premiers climate change action plan for reducing acid rain deposition and mercury emissions |
607,248 |
| 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 at 42 U.S.C. section 7401 et seq., as amended |
1,295,844 |
| 2250-2000 | Safe Drinking Water Act
For the commonwealth's implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 at 42 U.S.C. sections 300f to 300j-26, as amended, and pursuant to section 18A of chapter 21A of the General Laws |
1,230,839 |
| 2260-8870 | Hazardous Waste Cleanup Program
For the operation 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 |
12,330,404 |
| 2260-8872 | Brownfields Site Audit Program
For the brownfields site audit program |
1,171,886 |
| 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 |
379,397 |
| 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 from revenues 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: (a) this item is abolished or reduced in fiscal year 2017; or (b) operational funding for the department falls below the level authorized in the general appropriation act for fiscal year 2016 excluding appropriations for earmarks and non-recurring 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
The department of environmental protection may expend for the administration and implementation of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act under 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 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 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 the 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 | 20,591,351 | |
| 2200-9706 | Water Quality Management Planning
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Water Quality Management Planning |
185,675 |
| 2200-9712 | Cooperative Agreement Leaking Underground Storage Tank
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Cooperative Agreement Leaking Underground Storage Tank |
653,591 |
| 2200-9717 | Department of Defense State Memorandum of Agreement
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Department of Defense State Memorandum of Agreement |
1,393,932 |
| 2200-9724 | Superfund Block Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Superfund Block Grant |
670,000 |
| 2200-9728 | Brownfields Assessment Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Brownfields Assessment Program |
72,094 |
| 2200-9731 | Brownfields Response
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Brownfields Response |
216,636 |
| 2230-9702 | Performance Partnership Grant
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Performance Partnership Grant |
15,436,495 |
| 2240-9778 | Healthy Communities Grant Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Healthy Communities Grant Program |
6,077 |
| 2240-9780 | MA Statewide Water Use
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, USGS Non-Competitive Assistance FY2015 |
26,000 |
| 2250-9712 | Clean Air Act Section 103
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Clean Air Act Section 103 |
570,314 |
| 2250-9716 | MA National Air Toxics Trend Station Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Ambient Air Toxics Pilot Project |
93,575 |
| 2250-9726 | Homeland Security Co-Op Agreement
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Homeland Security Co-Op Agreement |
975,100 |
| 2250-9732 | Underground Storage Tank Program
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Underground Storage Tank Program |
239,037 |
| 2250-9744 | Mass Clean Diesel Program FY15
For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Mass Clean Diesel Program |
52,825 |
| account | description | amount |
|---|---|---|
| Trust and Other Spending | 23,908,342 | |
| 2200-0059 | Special Projects Permit/Oversight Fund | 300,000 |
| 2200-0350 | Water Pollution Abatement Dept. of Environmental Protection | 900,000 |
| 2200-0647 | Oil Spill Permitting | 1,000,000 |
| 2200-0884 | Springfield Materials Recycling Facility | 150,000 |
| 2200-2542 | USGen of New England, Inc. | 100,000 |
| 2200-2673 | Boston Junk Expendable Trust | 12,000 |
| 2200-2674 | Sustainable Materials Recovery Program Expendable Trust | 3,000,000 |
| 2200-2675 | Motors Liquidating Company fka General Motors Corp | 20,000 |
| 2200-2676 | Natural Resource Damages Trust | 4,000,000 |
| 2200-6001 | Administration of Federal Funds | 4,300,000 |
| 2200-6007 | Federal Water Pollution Abatement | 2,500,000 |
| 2200-6008 | Drinking Water State Revolving Fund - Administration Trust | 5,100,000 |
| 2200-6010 | Tewksbury Industries - Superior Court Civil Action | 100,000 |
| 2200-6014 | Bedford Harbor Expendable Trust | 10,000 |
| 2200-6016 | General Electric Expendable Trust | 100,000 |
| 2200-6020 | Tronox Incorporated Expendable Trust | 500,000 |
| 2200-6023 | Children's Museum Wharf Park Expendable Trust | 5,000 |
| 2200-6024 | Starmet Drum Removal | 261,342 |
| 2200-6385 | Green Chemistry Expendable Trust | 25,000 |
| 2200-6431 | Silresim Superfund Lowell Consent Decree | 1,000,000 |
| 2200-6432 | Silresim Superfund Lowell Replacement Costs Consent Decree | 200,000 |
| 2200-6433 | Charles George Tyngsborough Response Costs Consent Decree | 300,000 |
| 2200-9725 | Fort Devens Expendable Trust | 25,000 |
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