SENATE, No. 500

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JANUARY 22, 1996

By Senator LaROSSA

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, 1996 and regulating the disbursement thereof,” approved June 30, 1995 (P.L.1995, c.164).

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

    1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.1995, c.164, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

      2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

      This bill appropriates $225,000 in State Aid funding to the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), through the Department of Environmental Protection, for the purpose of providing a grant to finance a controlled exposure/human research study on the effects of oxygenated fuels. The EOHSI, which is jointly operated and sponsored by Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, originally planned to conduct this study with financial support from the ARCO Chemical Company, which ultimately decided not to participate. This appropriation will not only help to offset some of the anticipated funding from ARCO, but will allow the study to begin in February, 1996 so that research on the current winter’s effects of oxygenated fuels can be conducted.

Appropriates $225,000 to the DEP for oxygenated fuels study.