the drinking water response program.

1. Pursuant to the clean water infrastructure act of two thousand seventeen and within the up to one hundred thirty million dollars appropriated for such purposes, mitigation and remediation efforts to address public drinking water contamination from emerging contaminants and solid waste sites causing or substantially contributing to drinking water impairment that impacts public health may be conducted in accordance with this title.

2. The solid waste mitigation program shall receive no more than twenty-five million dollars from the clean water infrastructure act of 2017 and be made available to the department and the department of health, as applicable, for the following purposes:

a. enumeration and assessment of solid waste sites;

b. investigation and environmental characterization of solid waste sites, including environmental sampling;

c. mitigation and remediation of solid waste sites;

d. monitoring of solid waste sites; and

e. administration and enforcement of the requirements of section 27-1203 of this title.

3. The drinking water response program shall receive no more than twenty million dollars annually from the clean water infrastructure act of 2017 and be made available to the department and the department of health, as applicable, for the following purposes:

a. mitigation of drinking water contamination;

b. investigation of drinking water contamination;

c. remediation of drinking water contamination; and

d. administration and enforcement of the requirements of this title except the provisions of section 27-1203.

4. On or before July first, two thousand nineteen and July first of each succeeding year, the department shall report on the status of the programs. Such status report shall reflect information available to the department as of March thirty-first of each year, and shall include information regarding the number of sites referred to the inactive hazardous waste disposal site remedial program based on information obtained pursuant to this title and an accounting of all monies expended or encumbered from the clean water infrastructure act of two thousand seventeen during the preceding fiscal year, such accounting to separately list:

a. monies expended or encumbered for the purpose of conducting site investigations;

b. monies expended or encumbered for the purpose of conducting remedial investigations and feasibility studies;

c. monies expended for mitigation and remediation measures; and

d. an accounting of payments received and payments obligated to be received pursuant to this title, and a report of the department's attempts to secure such obligations.

5. all moneys recovered pursuant to title twelve of article twenty-seven of this chapter shall be deposited into the capital projects fund (30000), provided that such moneys recovered shall be used for the same purposes as are authorized by this title.