N.Y. TRA Law § 232

§ 232. State assistance application procedure. 1. A municipality may\nsubmit an application for state assistance toward the cost of any\nmunicipal rail preservation project which is eligible for state\nassistance pursuant to this article to the commissioner in such form and\ncontaining such information as he may require.\n 2. A county highway superintendent, or the county official having\njurisdiction over the county highway system for any county which does\nnot have a county highway superintendent, or in the case of the city of\nNew York, the city commissioner of transportation, may submit an\napplication for state assistance toward the cost of any local street or\nhighway project which is eligible for state assistance pursuant to this\narticle to the commissioner in such form and containing such information\nas he may require.\n 3. The commissioner shall review any such project application and may\napprove, disapprove or recommend modifications thereto consistent with\napplicable law, criteria, standards or rules and regulations relative to\nsuch project.\n 4. Upon approval of a project application, a municipality, county\nhighway superintendent, county official or city commissioner of\ntransportation, as the case may be, may enter into a contract as further\nprovided within this article with the commissioner for payment of state\nassistance to be received pursuant to this article.\n 5. In connection with local street or highway projects, the total\nfunds made available as a result of the energy conservation through\nimproved transportation bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine shall\nbe allocated in accordance with the following percentums: a)\nthirty-eight percentum for town roads; b) thirty percentum for county\nroads; c) eighteen percentum for city and village highways, streets and\nroads, outside of New York city; and d) fourteen percentum for highways\nand streets in New York city.\n