HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 434        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 779

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to support the infiltration/inflow financial assistance program..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.           Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Commonwealth, by and through the state treasurer, shall reimburse the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for its costs in providing cities and towns within its sewer service area, financial assistance in the form of interest free grants and loans to rehabilitate their collection systems, to structurally reduce infiltration and inflow that is the tributary to the treatment facilities owned by the Authority and located on Deer Island and Nut Island.