Bill Text: NJ S2897 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes $500,000 supplemental appropriation from General Fund to DEP for dredging and restoration of Passaic River.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S2897 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S2897-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator KRISTIN M. CORRADO
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Makes $500,000 supplemental appropriation from General Fund to DEP for dredging and restoration of Passaic River.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:
42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
40 Community Development and Environmental Management
42 Natural Resource Management
STATE AID
21-4895 Natural Resources Engineering .............................. $500,000
Total State Aid appropriation,
Natural Resources Management ......................... $500,000
State Aid:
21 Township of Fairfield (Essex County) Passaic River Dredging and Restoration Project..................................................... ($500,000)
The amount hereinabove appropriated for the Township of Fairfield (Essex County) Passaic River Dredging and Restoration Project shall be allocated to the Township of Fairfield (Essex County) for its dredging and restoration of the Passaic River. The Township of Fairfield (Essex County) Passaic River Dredging and Restoration Project shall include the dredging, restoration, cleaning, desnagging, and any other purpose or activity consistent with the Statewide general permit issued for the dredging and restoration of the Passaic River, and provided for in the municipality's plan submitted to the Commissioner of Environmental Protection. The Township of Fairfield in Essex County shall file a plan on a form prescribed by the commissioner, including such information as the commissioner may deem necessary. The Department of Environmental Protection shall waive any permit fee for any activity consistent with the Statewide general permit issued for the dredging and restoration of the Passaic River, and provided for in the municipality's plan submitted to the commissioner.
2. This act shall take effect
immediately.
STATEMENT
The bill appropriates an additional $500,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to be provided as State Aid to the Township of Fairfield in Essex County for the dredging and restoration of the Passaic River. A portion of the Passaic River flows through the Township of Fairfield in Essex County. The bill requires the supplemental appropriation to be allocated to that municipality. The bill directs the municipality to file a plan with the commissioner, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, including such information as the commissioner may deem necessary.
The bill further provides that:
1) The Township of Fairfield (Essex County) Passaic River Dredging and Restoration Project would include the dredging, restoration, cleaning, desnagging, and any other purpose or activity consistent with the Statewide general permit issued for the dredging and restoration of the Passaic River, and provided for in the municipality's plan submitted to the commissioner; and
2) the DEP would be required to waive any permit fee for any activity consistent with the Statewide general permit issued for the dredging and restoration of the Passaic River, and provided for in the municipality's plan submitted to the commissioner.
