SENATE, No. 1515

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 19, 1996

 

 

By Senators CAFIERO and ZANE

 

 

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:

Project

(farm)

County

Municipality

Acres

(+/-)

Amount of

Grant Not

To Exceed

Johnson

Cumberland

Upper Deerfield

253

   $475,000

 

    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:


Project

(farm)

County

Municipality

SADC

ID#

Amount of

Grant Not

To Exceed

Campione

Atlantic

Mullica

0117-20F

     $8,000

 

    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.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill would appropriate $475,000 from the "Green Acres, Clean Water, Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 1992," P.L.1992, c.88, for a farmland preservation project approved as eligible for funding pursuant to this bill. Specifically, the sum appropriated would be utilized to provide a grant to the appropriate county and municipality for up to 80% of the cost of acquisition of development easements on the farmland.

    This bill would also reappropriate $8,000 from the "Open Space Preservation Bond Act of 1989," P.L.1989, c.183, to provide a grant to a landowner for up to 50% of the cost of a certain soil and water conservation project. These monies are reappropriated from an unexpended balance from a previous farmland preservation bond act appropriation in 1993.

    This bill is necessary because these two eligible projects were inadvertently left off of the list of projects previously approved by the Legislature and the Governor pursuant to P.L.1996, c.54 and P.L.1996, c.56.

 

 

                             

 

Appropriates $475,000 from 1992 bond act for a farmland preservation project and reappropriates $8,000 from 1989 bond act for a soil and water conservation project.