Bill Text: NJ S174 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Appropriates $200,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S174 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S174-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator NIA H. GILL
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Appropriates $200,000 from "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" for grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act appropriating moneys from the "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" to provide grants to assist qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. (1) There is appropriated from the "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund," established pursuant to section 19 of P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-19), to the Department of Environmental Protection the sum of $200,000 for the purpose of providing grants to assist qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organizations to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes. The following project is eligible for funding with the moneys appropriated pursuant to this paragraph:
Nonprofit Project County Municipality Approved
Organization Amount
Save Ellis Pedestrian Hudson Jersey City $200,000
Island, Inc. Walkway
Restoration
TOTAL $200,000
(2) Any transfer of any funds, or change in project sponsor, site, or type, listed in this subsection shall require the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor.
b. To the extent that moneys remain available after the project listed in subsection a. of this section is offered funding pursuant thereto, any project of a qualifying tax exempt nonprofit organization that previously received funding appropriated or reappropriated from any Green Acres bond act, any annual appropriations act, or the Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund for recreation and conservation purposes shall be eligible to receive additional funding, as determined by the Department of Environmental Protection, subject to the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor. For the purposes of this subsection, "Green Acres bond act" means P.L.2007, c.119, P.L.1995, c.204, P.L.1992, c.88, and P.L.1989, c.183.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would appropriate $200,000 from the "Garden State Green Acres Preservation Trust Fund" to provide a grant to Save Ellis Island, Inc. to develop lands for recreation and conservation purposes. That trust fund was established pursuant to the "Garden State Preservation Trust Act," P.L.1999, c.152 (C.13:8C-1 et seq.). The project listed in this bill has been approved by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Garden State Preservation Trust (GSPT).
Save Ellis Island, Inc. is a nonprofit organization created to assist in the restoration of Ellis Island. The project to be funded by this bill consists of the restoration of a pedestrian passageway that will allow public access to the open space on the New Jersey side of Ellis Island. The funds will allow the public to reach the four acres of open courtyard and additional open space, as well as the historic hospital structures, on Islands 2 and 3, all of which are scheduled for restoration.
