Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ADAM J. TALIAFERRO
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblyman JOHN J. BURZICHELLI
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Assemblyman ERIC HOUGHTALING
District 11 (Monmouth)
Senator RAYMOND J. LESNIAK
District 20 (Union)
Senator STEVEN V. OROHO
District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Rible, Dancer, Space, Assemblywoman Phoebus, Assemblymen Peterson, DiMaio, Rooney and Senator Bateman
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $2,900,000 from “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” for grants to certain nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning farmland preservation and appropriating monies from the “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” for grants to qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations for farmland preservation purposes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. There is appropriated to the State Agriculture Development Committee the sum of $2,900,000 from the “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund,” established pursuant to section 18 of the “Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009,” P.L.2009, c.117, for the purpose of providing grants to qualifying tax-exempt non-profit organizations listed in subsection b. of this section for up to 50% of the cost of acquisition of development easements on farmland or for up to 50% of the cost of acquisition of fee simple titles to farmland for resale or lease with agricultural deed restrictions approved by the committee. These monies are made available due to project withdrawals, cancelled obligations, and reallocation of previously appropriated funds.
(b) The following projects are eligible for funding with the monies appropriated pursuant to subsection a. of this section:
|
Applicant (Project) |
Farm |
County |
Municipality |
Amount of Grant Not to Exceed
|
|
Lamington Conservancy |
|
|
|
$500,000 |
|
|
Jones |
Somerset |
Bedminster Twp
|
|
|
Monmouth Conservation Foundation |
|
|
|
$225,000 |
|
|
Feigus |
Monmouth |
Howell Twp
|
|
|
New Jersey Conservation Foundation |
|
|
|
$750,000 |
|
|
Skalski |
Hunterdon |
Tewksbury Twp
|
|
|
|
Ostrum |
Salem |
Pilesgrove Twp
|
|
|
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey
|
|
|
|
$1,425,000 |
|
|
Murlan |
Warren |
Frelinghuysen Twp
|
|
|
|
Tjalma II |
Warren |
Harmony Twp
|
|
|
|
Tjalma III |
Warren |
Harmony Twp
|
|
|
|
Shoemaker I |
Warren |
White Twp
|
|
|
|
Shoemaker II |
Warren |
White Twp
|
|
2. The expenditure of the sum appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions of P.L.2009, c.117, and P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et seq.), as appropriate.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would appropriate $2,900,000 from the “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” to the State Agriculture Development Committee (SADC) for farmland preservation purposes.
These funds are made available due to project withdrawals, cancelled obligations, and reallocation of monies previously appropriated from the “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” to the SADC pursuant to P.L.2011, c.98. The “2009 Farmland Preservation Fund” was established pursuant to section 18 of the “Green Acres, Water Supply and Floodplain Protection, and Farmland and Historic Preservation Bond Act of 2009,” P.L.2009, c.117.
Specifically, the bill would appropriate funds for grants to four qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations for (1) up to 50% of the cost of acquisition of development easements on farmland for farmland preservation purposes, or (2) up to 50% of the cost of acquisition of fee simple titles to farmland for resale or lease with agricultural deed restrictions approved by the SADC.
The allocations and projects listed in this bill have been approved by the SADC and the Garden State Preservation Trust.