Carbon County may receive nearly $600,000 in wireless funds from the state if a bill that is weaving its way through the legislature is passed by the time the current law sunsets at the end of the month.

Commissioners' Chairman Wayne Nothstein said the correspondence on Thursday's agenda, which states that Carbon has been awarded $578,831.66 from the Pennsylvania Management Agency's 911 office's Wireless E-911 funding for fiscal year 2015-2016, is dependent on the passing of House Bill 911, which will amend the current law regarding wireless collection fees for 911 services. If no action is taken on the bill by June 30, the law will sunset and the money will not be available.Nothstein said the bill has passed the Senate and is going back to the House for amendments that were made to it. If passed by the House, it will again go back to the Senate before it reaches Gov. Tom Wolf's desk."Hopefully we will receive that money," Nothstein said, but added that it is now a wait-and-see process. "The money could be used for different things like up to 70 percent for salaries, equipment upgrades and more."He commended Gary Williams, 911 director, for working on the grant. In past years, the county hired an outside company to complete the application, but this year, Williams completed it himself."That saved us approximately $40,000," Nothstein said.