ASSEMBLY, No. 179
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION
By Assemblymen GIBSON and ASSELTA
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, 1995 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 1994 (P.L.1994, c.67).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.1994, c.67, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION
42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
40. Community Development and Environmental Management
42. Natural Resource Management
Capital Projects:
Natural Resource Engineering
Great Egg Harbor Inlet Dredging............( 1,100,000 )
Bidwell's Creek Dredging......................( 400,000 )
Clam Creek Dredging............................( 400,000 )
Spicer Creek Dredging...........................( 375,000 )
Cedar Creek Dredging...........................( 400,000 )
Shark River Dredging............................( 600,000 )
Total Appropriation, Natural Resource
Management......................$3,275,000
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would appropriate $3,275,000 to Natural Resource Management in the Department of Environmental Protection for the purpose of conducting maintenance dredging projects in the waterways enumerated in the bill. These channels require periodic maintenance dredging to ensure continued safe navigation. All of the waterways noted above are currently hazardous to navigation, and one, Bidwell's Creek, is considered to be highly hazardous.
Appropriates $3,275,000 to DEP for various dredging projects.