The state Commissioner of Health, may, in the name of the state, make or contract to make, within appropriations therefor, a state grant for payment during any of the ten successive fiscal years of the state, beginning with its fiscal year commencing April 1, 1964, to a local agency to cover the entire cost, as determined by him, of the preparation of a comprehensive study and report.
N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 15-1309