Bill Text: NJ A4287 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $12 million to Village of Ridgewood for drinking water infrastructure improvements related to per- and poly-fluoralkyl substance pollution.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste Committee [A4287 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4287-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CHRISTOPHER P. DEPHILLIPS
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Assemblywoman LISA SWAIN
District 38 (Bergen)
Assemblyman AL BARLAS
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Makes supplemental appropriation of $12 million to Village of Ridgewood for drinking water infrastructure improvements related to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance pollution.
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:
22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
70 Government Direction, Management, and Control
75 State Subsidies and Financial Aid
STATE AID
04-8030 Local Government Services............................... $12,000,000
Total State Aid appropriation,
State Subsidies and Financial Aid ................. $12,000,000
State Aid:
04 Village of Ridgewood - Ridgewood Water PFAS-Related Infrastructure Improvements .................................. ($12,000,000)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would appropriate $12 million from the General Fund to the Village of Ridgewood in Bergen County to offset the costs of infrastructure improvements that are needed to mitigate per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pollution in the drinking water system.
The Ridgewood Water Department, also known as Ridgewood Water, is a public community water system that serves over 60,000 residents in Ridgewood, Midland Park, Glen Rock, and Wyckoff. The sponsor's intent in introducing the legislation is to avoid the significant rate increases that Ridgewood Water would otherwise need to impose on its ratepayers in order to fund the PFAS-related infrastructure improvements.
