Bill Text: NJ S657 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee [S657 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S657-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 657

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  STEVEN V. OROHO

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits DOT from taking certain action on certain rock fall mitigation projects and requires DOT to conduct analysis on project alternatives.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning capital projects of the Department of Transportation and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  The Department of Transportation shall not plan for, design, or construct, or use funds for the planning, design, or construction of, a rock wall between milepost 1.00 and milepost 1.50 on Interstate Highway Route 80.

     b.    For any departmental project for rock fall mitigation between milepost 1.00 and milepost 1.50 on Interstate Highway Route 80, the department shall conduct a full analysis of all feasible options for rock fall mitigation, provided that any such option shall not include the construction of a rock wall.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Department of Transportation (department) from planning for, designing, or constructing, or using funds for the planning, design, or construction of, a rock wall between milepost 1.00 and milepost 1.50 on Interstate Highway Route 80.  The bill also requires the department, for any project for rock fall mitigation between those mileposts, to conduct a full analysis of all feasible non-rock wall options for rock fall mitigation.