SENATE, No. 464

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

208th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 23, 1998

Sponsored by:

Senator WALTER J. KAVANAUGH

District 16 (Morris and Somerset)

Senator WILLIAM E. SCHLUTER

District 23 (Warren, Hunterdon and Mercer)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Littell

SYNOPSIS

Approves funding eligibility of certain farmland preservation projects in northern NJ.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

As introduced.

An Act approving certain farmland preservation projects in northern New Jersey as eligible for funding from the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204.

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

1. The following projects are eligible for funding with monies made available from the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204, and appropriated to the State Agriculture Development Committee pursuant to section 1 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (now before the Legislature as Senate Bill No. of 1998 or Assembly Bill No. 1593 of 1998):

Project County Municipality Acres Amount of (Farm) (+/-) Grant Not to Exceed

Asbury Farms Hunterdon Bethlehem 86 $250,000

Beatty Hunterdon Bethlehem 157 400,000

Huff Hunterdon Bethlehem 119 350,000

Knigge Hunterdon Bethlehem 152 375,000

Readington/ Hunterdon Readington 94 500,000

C. & C. Schaefer

Readington/ Hunterdon Readington 130 650,000

C. & W. Schaefer

Farrand Morris Washington 58 350,000

Quinlan Morris Washington 45 75,000

Conard Somerset Hillsborough 138 1,400,000

Somerset/Kanach Somerset Hillsborough 114 675,000

Struble Sussex Lafayette/ 105 175,000

Hardyston

Martin/Mullhaupt Sussex Vernon 66 125,000

Hamming Sussex Wantage 252 300,000

Joseph Sussex Wantage 248 400,000

Moore Warren Frelinghuysen 76 175,000

Sisters of St. Dominic Warren Frelinghuysen 140 300,000

Joswik Warren Knowlton 171 375,000

2. The expenditure of the sums appropriated by this act is subject to the provisions and conditions of P.L.1995, c.204.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

This bill would approve certain farmland preservation projects in northern counties of the State as eligible for funding from the "Green Acres, Farmland and Historic Preservation, and Blue Acres Bond Act of 1995," P.L.1995, c.204, with respect to: (1) providing grants to counties and municipalities for up to 80% of the cost of acquisition of development easements on farmland; and (2) providing for up to 100% of the cost of acquisition of development easements under such emergency conditions as the State Agriculture Development Committee determines, in accordance with the provisions of the bond act.

This bill is part of a three-bill legislative package concerning farmland preservation and soil and water conservation.