Bill Text: NJ A574 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes ranking criteria for certain nonpoint source pollution control grants issued by DEP.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-10 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A574 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A574-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 574

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  LISA SWAIN

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Jasey

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes ranking criteria for certain nonpoint source pollution control grants issued by DEP.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Special Committee on Infrastructure and Natural Resources Committee on March 10, 2022, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning certain nonpoint source pollution control grants and supplementing P.L.1977, c.74 (C.58:10A-1 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.    a.  No later than one year after the effective date of this act and to the extent allowable under the federal act, the department shall establish a ranking system for nonpoint source pollution control grants issued pursuant to P.L.1977, c.74 (C.58:10A-1 et seq.), including grants that utilize Corporation Business Tax revenues appropriated pursuant to Article VIII, Section II, paragraph 6, subparagraph (a) of the New Jersey Constitution or federal funds allocated to the State pursuant to 33 U.S.C. s.1329 or 33 U.S.C. s.1384.

     b.    The ranking system shall ¹[include, but not be limited to,] provide, at a minimum, for¹ priority to ¹be given to¹ a project that is located ¹in¹:

     (1)   ¹[in]¹ an area that is served by a stormwater utility established pursuant to P.L.2019, c.42 (C.40A:26B-1 et al.);

     (2)   ¹[in]¹ a municipality that has adopted an ordinance prohibiting the application of lawn fertilizers;

     (3)   ¹[in]¹ an area that has experienced recent economic hardship as a result of nonpoint source pollution limiting the uses of a nearby waterbody; or

     (4)   ¹[in]¹ a municipality that has adopted an ordinance imposing maintenance and inspection requirements on the owners and operators of septic systems, including, but not limited to¹, an ordinance¹:

     (a)   ¹establishing¹ a maximum duration of one year between inspections of ¹[the] a septic¹ system;

     (b)   authorizing ¹septic¹ systems to be inspected by the Department of Health; ¹[and] or¹

     (c)   ¹establishing septic system-related¹ record-keeping requirements.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.