ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 2189

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: NOVEMBER 19, 1996

      The Assembly Transportation and Communications Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 2189.

      This bill would supplement the "New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority Act of 1984" to require that a municipality or county certify that local matching funds, if required, have been appropriated whenever the municipality or county applies for State aid to be appropriated from the revenues and other funds of the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority. There have been instances when a local unit has applied for, and been awarded, State aid from the Transportation Trust Fund but has not made provision for necessary local matching funds and therefore was unable to accept the State aid. Applying for State aid without having the necessary matching funds wastes resources of the Department of Transportation in evaluating such an application and ultimately delays awards of State aid to other local units which have matching funds available.