§ 232. State assistance application procedure. 1. A municipality may
submit an application for state assistance toward the cost of any
municipal rail preservation project which is eligible for state
assistance pursuant to this article to the commissioner in such form and
containing such information as he may require.

2. A county highway superintendent, or the county official having
jurisdiction over the county highway system for any county which does
not have a county highway superintendent, or in the case of the city of
New York, the city commissioner of transportation, may submit an
application for state assistance toward the cost of any local street or
highway project which is eligible for state assistance pursuant to this
article to the commissioner in such form and containing such information
as he may require.

3. The commissioner shall review any such project application and may
approve, disapprove or recommend modifications thereto consistent with
applicable law, criteria, standards or rules and regulations relative to
such project.

4. Upon approval of a project application, a municipality, county
highway superintendent, county official or city commissioner of
transportation, as the case may be, may enter into a contract as further
provided within this article with the commissioner for payment of state
assistance to be received pursuant to this article.

5. In connection with local street or highway projects, the total
funds made available as a result of the energy conservation through
improved transportation bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine shall
be allocated in accordance with the following percentums: a)
thirty-eight percentum for town roads; b) thirty percentum for county
roads; c) eighteen percentum for city and village highways, streets and
roads, outside of New York city; and d) fourteen percentum for highways
and streets in New York city.