CHAPTER 128

An Act appropriating $475,000 from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, and reappropriating $8,000 from the "Open Space Preservation Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.183, for farmland preservation and soil and water conservation.

    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 $475,000 for the purpose of providing a grant to the appropriate county and municipality for up to 80% of the cost of acquisition of development easements on farmland, provided that any funds received for the transfer of a development easement shall be dedicated to the future purchase of development easements, for the following project hereby approved as eligible for such funding:

    2.    There is reappropriated from the "1989 Farmland Preservation Fund," established pursuant to section 22 of the "Open Space Preservation Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.183, to the State Agriculture Development Committee the unexpended balance of $8,000 appropriated pursuant to P.L.1993, c.262, and P.L.1993, c.263, for the purpose of providing a grant to a landowner for up to 50% of the cost of the following soil and water conservation project hereby approved as eligible for such funding:

    3.    The expenditure of the sums appropriated or reappropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.1989, c.183 and P.L.1992, c.88, as appropriate.

    4.    This act shall take effect immediately.

    Approved November 20, 1996.