Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-49

ENV 49

Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Program

Ms. Moran and Mr. Tarr moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 1599-0093, by adding the following words:- “; provided, that funding may be expended to the department of environmental protection to establish a grant program to provide funding to upgrade wastewater treatment plants to accommodate affordable housing developments; provided further, that eligible grantees shall include any person, entity, or state agency that owns or operates a wastewater treatment plant or modular wastewater treatment system whose sewer load would expand beyond the plant’s maximum rated load capacity by serving future residents of a housing development proposal that has been approved by a municipality or the commonwealth under sections 20 to 23 of chapter 40B of the General Laws; provided further, that funding distributed from the program shall not be used for any other purpose besides physical upgrades to said wastewater treatment plant or modular wastewater treatment system or to expand operational capacity for management of said plant or system and shall not exceed 100 thousand dollars”.