ASSEMBLY, No. 1085

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman CORODEMUS

An Act concerning open space and supplementing Title 13 of the Revised Statutes.

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

    1. The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, shall prepare and distribute to the planning board and, where applicable, to the environmental commission, of each municipality, and make available, for the cost of reproduction and postage, to any other interested party, informational materials regarding open space preservation. These materials shall synthesize for local officials the land preservation techniques permitted by law, methods to raise funds for open space acquisition, and programs successful in other jurisdictions in preserving open space.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would direct the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, to prepare and distribute to local planning board and environmental commission officials, and make available for the cost of reproduction and postage to any other interested party, informational materials regarding open space preservation. These materials would be required to synthesize those land preservation techniques permitted by law, methods to raise funds for open space acquisition, and programs successful in other jurisdictions in preserving open space.

    A fiscal note prepared by the Office of Legislative Services "estimates that the cost of developing and distributing the informational materials described by the bill are well within the scope of the department's existing public information and educational

activities and therefore would not require additional funding nor have a negative impact on the existing budget of these units".

Directs DEP to distribute open space information.