ASSEMBLY, No. 411

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblywoman HECK

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," passed 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:

GENERAL FUND

CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION

42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

40 Community Development and Environmental Management

42 Natural Resource Management

Capital Projects:

    Palisades Interstate Park Commission

            Ross Dock Rehabilitation .................. ($1,600,000)

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    The bill appropriates $1,600,000 in Capital Construction funds to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, through the Department of Environmental Protection, to rehabilitate the Ross Dock Picnic Area, a popular picnic and outdoor recreation site on the western shore of the Hudson River. The site, which is owned and operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, has longstanding maintenance problems that can no longer be deferred. The appropriated amount would be used primarily to repair or rehabilitate the facility's crumbling seawall, failing septic system, severe drainage problems, and significant vegetative decline. The commission believes that without such repairs, the site will probably be closed down next year.

Appropriates $1,600,000 to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission for rehabilitation of Ross Dock.