Bill Text: NJ S1475 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-06 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S1475 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S1475-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1475

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 6, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  THOMAS H. KEAN, JR.

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2011 (P.L.2011, c.85).

 

     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.2011, c.85, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 40 Community Development and Environmental Management 42 Natural Resource Management GRANTS-IN-AID
21-4895 Natural Resources Engineering  ..........................................		$5,000,000
Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation,		$5,000,000
Natural Resource Management  ............................................
Grants:
21    Cranford Township Flood Control  ..............	($5,000,000)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection to provide Cranford Township in Union County with a grant of $5 million to finance the Cranford Northeast Quadrant Flood Control Project, which includes the following projects:  1) construction of a pumping station to convey storm water into the main channel of the Rahway river; 2) improvements to express and local storm sewers; 3) development of wetland delineation data; and 4) elevation of existing earthen dikes along the Rahway river.  While similar legislation appropriating $3,250,000 was enacted in December, 2000 (P.L.2000, c.170), these funds were never utilized, having been subsequently lapsed to the General Fund to help alleviate a State Budget deficit.