SENATE, No. 292

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Senators GORMLEY and CIESLA

An Act appropriating $443,000 from the "Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.181, for the purpose of providing grants to local government units for financing the cost of the mapping of sanitary and stormwater sewer system projects.

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

    1. a. There is appropriated from the "Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Fund," created pursuant to section 14 of the "Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.181, to the Department of Environmental Protection the sum of $443,000 for the purpose of providing grants to local government units for financing the cost of the mapping of sanitary and stormwater sewer system projects, as follows:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT     COUNTY       GRANT AWARD

             UNIT 

Absecon City              Atlantic                       $ 45,900

Atlantic City                           Atlantic                        47,650

Brigantine City                       Atlantic                        39,800

Estell Manor City                   Atlantic                        27,050

Middle Township                   Cape May                    41,700

Avon-By-The-Sea Boro         Monmouth                   47,200

Sea Bright Boro                      Monmouth                   64,300

Barnegat Township                Ocean                          32,300

Brick Township                      Ocean                          97,100

    b. Any transfer of any funds or project sponsor listed in subsection a. of this section shall require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.

    2. The Department of Environmental Protection may apply the provisions of the "Sewage Infrastructure Improvement Act," P.L.1988, c.90 (C.58:25-23 et seq.), and any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, as appropriate, in awarding the grants authorized pursuant to section 1 of this act.

    3. The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.1989, c.181.

    4. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would appropriate $443,000 from the "Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Bond Act of 1989" to the Department of Environmental Protection for the purpose of providing grants to certain municipalities in Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, and Ocean counties for financing the cost of the mapping of sanitary and stormwater sewer system projects within those municipalities.

Appropriates $443,000 in bond funds for sewer mapping grants to certain local government units.