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P.L. 1997, CHAPTER 178, approved July 31, 1997

Assembly, No. 2461

 

 

 

An Act appropriating $750,000 from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, for soil and water conservation projects, and appropriating $5,000,000 from the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204, for the acquisition of fee simple titles to farmland.

 

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

 

    1.    There is appropriated from the "1992 Farmland Preservation Fund," established pursuant to section 24 of the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, to the State Agriculture Development Committee the sum of $750,000 for the purpose of providing grants to landowners for up to 50% of the cost of soil and water conservation projects approved as eligible for such funding.

 

    2.    There is appropriated from the "1995 Farmland Preservation Fund," established pursuant to section 25 of the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204, to the State Agriculture Development Committee the sum of $5,000,000 for the purpose of providing for the cost of acquisition of fee simple titles to farmland.

 

    3.    The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.1992, c.88 or P.L.1995, c.204, as appropriate.

 

    4.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill would appropriate $750,000 from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, to provide grants to qualifying farmland owners for up


to 50% of the cost of soil and water conservation projects. The bill would also appropriate $5 million from the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204, for the acquisition of fee simple titles to farmland, which shall be offered for resale with agricultural deed restrictions. With respect to soil and water conservation grants and fee simple acquisitions of farmland, neither the 1992 bond act nor the 1995 bond act requires identification of the particular projects to be funded by the appropriation bill; thus, the State Agriculture Development Committee would make the decisions with regard to which particular projects are to be funded with the monies appropriated by this bill.

 

 

                             

 

Appropriates $750,000 in farmland preservation bond monies for soil and water conservation projects and appropriates $5 million in farmland preservation bond monies for fee simple farmland purchases.