2200-0112 Compliance and Permitting 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 purpose of ensuring sufficient staff for timely permit decisions and compliance assurance; 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