ASSEMBLY ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 2236

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: SEPTEMBER 19, 1996

      The Assembly Environment, Science and Technology Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 2236.

      This bill would repeal the $2.00 per bushel surcharge on clams harvested through the depurated hard and soft clam and hard clam relay programs in Monmouth County. The surcharge was imposed pursuant to P.L.1995, c.335 (C.58:24-11 et seq.). The surcharge fees collected pursuant to that law were required to be deposited into the Monmouth County Clam Depuration and Relay Program Fund to be utilized to implement the depurated hard or soft clam or hard clam relay programs in Monmouth County. The bill would not repeal the fund, however; it would remain in existence to be the repository for such moneys as may be appropriated or otherwise credited to the fund to be expended for the purposes set forth in the 1995 law. The bill would also repeal two sections of the 1995 law (i.e., the legislative findings and declarations section and the definitions section) that are no longer needed for the purposes of the revision made by this bill.