Bill Text: NJ A1663 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain service extensions undertaken in municipally-designated areas in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation to receive same benefits as if located in smart growth area.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee [A1663 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1663-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD
District 6 (Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Requires certain service extensions undertaken in municipally-designated areas in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation to receive same benefits as if located in smart growth area.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning certain service extensions undertaken in areas in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation designated by municipalities and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in this act:
"Cost" means the actual expenses incurred in the construction of an extension for materials and labor employed in the design, purchase, construction, or installation of the extension, including overhead directly attributable to the work, as well as overrides or loading factors such as those for back-up personnel for mapping, records, clerical, supervision or general office functions.
"Distribution" means the delivery of a regulated service or product provided by a regulated entity to customers.
"Extension" means the construction or installation of plant or facilities by a regulated entity to convey a regulated service from existing plant or facilities to one or more new customers, and also means the plant or facilities themselves. "Extension" shall include all plant or facilities for transmission or distribution, whether located on a public street or right-of-way, or on private property, including the wire, cable, pipe, conduit, or other means of conveying a regulated service from existing plant or facilities to each unit or structure to be served.
"Generation" means the manufacture, production, extraction, or creation of a substance, such as water or petroleum products, a form of energy, such as electricity, or a signal, such as a telecommunications or cable television signal.
"Plant or facilities" means any machinery, apparatus, or equipment, including, but not limited to, mains, pipes, aqueducts, canals, wires, cables, fibers, substations, generators, engines, transformers, burners, pumps, and switches, used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of water, energy, telecommunications, cable television, or other service that a regulated entity provides. "Plant or facilities" shall not include equipment used solely for administrative purposes, such as office equipment used for administering a billing system.
"Regulated entity" means a person or entity that is subject to regulation by the board, or that provides a product or service regulated by the board, including a public utility.
"Regulated service" means a service subject to regulation by the board.
"Transmission" means the movement or transfer of a substance, signal, or form of energy from or through plant or facilities to customers.
2. In the case of any extension to provide a regulated service, whether that extension constitutes a relocation, upgrade, or expansion of service to new customers, undertaken within an area that a municipality has designated under the "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law," P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-1 et seq.), as being in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation, that extension of service shall be covered under any program established by the board that provides financial incentives to customers located within an area designated for growth.
3. This act shall take effect on the 60th day after the date of enactment, but the Board of Public Utilities may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that in the case of any extension to provide a regulated service, whether that extension constitutes a relocation, upgrade, or expansion of service to new customers, undertaken within an area that a municipality has designated under the "Local Redevelopment and Housing Law," P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-1 et seq.), as being in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation, that extension of service shall be covered under any program established by the Board of Public Utilities that provides financial incentives to customers located within an area designated for growth. Accordingly, such areas would be entitled to certain benefits under a program established by the board in N.J.A.C. 14:3-8.12, entitled, the "Smart Growth Infrastructure Investment Program ("SGIIP").
Reuse of previously developed areas is State policy as established in the State Plan and further emphasized in Governor Jon S. Corzine's "Economic Growth Strategy for the State of New Jersey 2007." The intent of this bill is to ensure that the SGIIP serves as a tool to reuse land in accordance with State policy.
