CHAPTER 434

 

A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 27, 1997 (P.L.1997, c. 131).


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


    1.    There is appropriated to the Department of Environmental Protection from the "Beaches and Harbors Fund of 1977" created pursuant to section 9 of the "Beaches and Harbors Bond Act of 1977," P.L. 1977, c.208, the sum of $1,208,244 to provide grants for the researching, planning, acquiring, developing, constructing and maintaining of beach and harbor restoration, maintenance and protection facilities, projects and programs.


    2.    There is appropriated to the Department of Environmental Protection such sums as may become available due to the return of any currently escrowed funds to the "Beaches and Harbors Fund of 1977" to provide grants for the researching, planning, acquiring, developing, constructing and maintaining of beach and harbor restoration, maintenance and protection facilities, projects and programs.


    3.    There is appropriated to the Department of Environmental Protection from the "Shore Protection Fund" created pursuant to section 14 of the "Shore Protection Bond Act of 1983," P.L. 1983, c. 356, the sum of $2,706,735 to provide grants to counties and municipalities for the cost of researching, planning, acquiring, developing, constructing and maintaining county and municipal shore protection projects.


    4.    This act shall take effect immediately.


    Approved January 19, 1998.