STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator ROBERT W. SINGER
District 30 (Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Directs Secretary of Agriculture to determine annually areas for gypsy moth control measures and implement control measures; specifies State pay full implementation cost; appropriates $5,500,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning gypsy moth control and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any other law, or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, the Secretary of Agriculture each year, in consultation with the Forest Health Advisory Council and the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, shall survey the lands in the State, determine whether, when, and where it is in the public interest to implement effective gypsy moth control measures in the State, and determine on which lands gypsy moth control measures are to be implemented.
Upon making these determinations, the Secretary of Agriculture shall notify the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and the affected municipalities of the location of the lands on which gypsy moth control measures are to be implemented, negotiate any arrangements required to implement the gypsy moth control measures, and implement the gypsy moth control measures on the lands indicated. The State shall pay for the full cost of implementing the gypsy moth control measures on all of the lands indicated.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of $5,500,000 for implementation of gypsy moth control measures pursuant to section 1 of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture each year, in consultation with the Forest Health Advisory Council and the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, to:
1) survey the lands in the State;
2) determine whether, when, and where it is in the public interest to implement effective gypsy moth control measures;
3) determine on which lands gypsy moth control measures are to be implemented;
4) notify the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and the affected municipalities of the location of the lands on which gypsy moth control measures are to be implemented;
5) negotiate any arrangements required to implement the gypsy moth control measures; and
6) implement the indicated gypsy moth control measures on the lands indicated.
The bill further specifies that State will pay the full cost of implementing the gypsy moth control measures on all of the lands indicated.
Finally, the bill appropriates $5.5 million to the Department of Agriculture for the cost of implementing the required control measures.