SEQRA expenses. When an action subject to SEQRA involves an application before the Town Board, the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Appeals, the reviewing board may, if such reviewing board is the lead agency, charge a fee to the applicant to recover the actual cost to the Town of preparing and reviewing the EAF, EIS, the SEQRA findings, notices and all other requirements that are incidental to the SEQRA review process. Such fees may be imposed on the applicant by the lead agency and shall not exceed the amounts allowable under 6 NYCRR 617.17(b) through (d). Such fees may be imposed on an applicant for costs incurred by the Town for professional review services. For the purpose of this section, professional review services shall be defined as but not limited to those services provided by engineers, lawyers, architects, landscape designers, certified surveyors, property appraisers, planners and related professionals. Said monies shall be deposited in escrow and governed pursuant to the provisions of § 108-36.3 of this chapter.

Negative declaration. In all cases where the Town Board, the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Appeals approves a negative declaration in connection with an action governed by SEQRA, the actual cost of professional review services provided to the reviewing board between the time of receipt of the application and the final determination on the requested action by the reviewing board may be imposed on the applicant in the same manner as prescribed in Subsection A herein. The costs to the applicant imposed under this subsection for preparation of the negative declaration shall not exceed the limit set forth in 6 NYCRR 617.17(b) through (d).