Bill Text: NJ S2396 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-12-20 - Substituted by A3593 [S2396 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2396-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2396

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 17, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JEFF VAN DREW

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Senator  MICHAEL J. DOHERTY

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $16,250,000 from "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 

An Act appropriating $16,250,000 from the "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" to the State Agriculture Development Committee for planning incentive grants to municipalities for farmland preservation purposes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  There is appropriated to the State Agriculture Development Committee the sum of $16,250,000 from the "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund," established pursuant to section 18 of the "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," P.L.2009, c.117, for the purpose of providing planning incentive grants to municipalities pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1999, c.180 (C.4:1C-43.1) and approved as eligible for such funding pursuant to subsection b. of this section.

     b.    The following projects are eligible for funding with the monies appropriated pursuant to subsection a. of this section:

 

Municipality	County	Project Area	Amount of Grant Not to Exceed
Hopewell Twp	Cumberland	Hopewell Twp	$750,000
Upper Deerfield Twp	Cumberland	Upper Deerfield Twp	500,000
Franklin Twp	Gloucester	Franklin Twp	500,000
Woolwich Twp	Gloucester	Woolwich Twp	500,000
Alexandria Twp	Hunterdon	Alexandria Twp	500,000
Delaware Twp	Hunterdon	Delaware Twp	500,000
East Amwell Twp	Hunterdon	East Amwell Twp	500,000
Holland Twp	Hunterdon	Holland Twp	500,000
Kingwood Twp	Hunterdon	Kingwood Twp	500,000
Readington Twp	Hunterdon	Readington Twp	500,000
Hopewell Twp	Mercer	Hopewell Twp	500,000
Howell Twp	Monmouth	Howell Twp	500,000
Manalapan Twp	Monmouth	Manalapan Twp	500,000
Marlboro Twp	Monmouth	Marlboro Twp	500,000
Millstone Twp	Monmouth	Millstone Twp	500,000
Upper Freehold Twp	Monmouth	Upper Freehold Twp	500,000
Pilesgrove Twp	Salem	Pilesgrove Twp	500,000
Pittsgrove Twp	Salem	Pittsgrove Twp	500,000
Upper Pittsgrove Twp	Salem	Upper Pittsgrove Twp	500,000
Bedminster Twp	Somerset	Bedminster Twp	500,000
Hillsborough Twp	Somerset	Hillsborough Twp	500,000
Montgomery Twp	Somerset	Montgomery Twp	500,000
Peapack-Gladstone Boro	Somerset	Peapack-Gladstone Boro	500,000
Frankford Twp	Sussex	Frankford Twp	750,000
Green Twp	Sussex	Green Twp	750,000
Blairstown Twp	Warren	Blairstown Twp	500,000
Franklin Twp	Warren	Franklin Twp	500,000
Freylinghuysen Twp	Warren	Freylinghuysen Twp	500,000
Greenwich Twp	Warren	Greenwich Twp	500,000
Knowlton Twp	Warren	Knowlton Twp	500,000
White Twp	Warren	White Twp	500,000
TOTAL			$16,250,000

 

     2.    The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.2009, c.117, P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.), P.L.1999, c.180 (C.4:1C-43.1), and P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-1 et seq.), as appropriate.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would appropriate $16,250,000 to the State Agriculture Development Committee (SADC) for planning incentive grants to municipalities pursuant to a program established by P.L.1999, c.180 (C.4:1C-43.1) for farmland preservation purposes.

     This funding is from the "2009 Farmland Preservation Fund" established pursuant to section 18 of the "Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009," P.L.2009, c.117.

     This bill would provide grants to 31 municipalities in nine counties.

     The allocations and projects listed in this bill have been approved by the SADC and the Garden State Preservation Trust.