Bill Text: NJ S3331 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $12 million to Village of Ridgewood for drinking water infrastructure improvements related to per- and poly-fluoralkyl substance pollution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S3331 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3331-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 3331

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 3, 2024

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Schepisi

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes supplemental appropriation of $12 million to Village of Ridgewood for drinking water infrastructure improvements related to per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance pollution.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.

 

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

 

     1.  In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:

 

22 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

70 Government Direction, Management, and Control

75 State Subsidies and Financial Aid

 

STATE AID

04-8030  Local Government Services............................... $12,000,000

                 Total State Aid appropriation,                                               

                   State Subsidies and Financial Aid ................. $12,000,000

State Aid:

         04    Village of Ridgewood - Ridgewood Water PFAS-Related Infrastructure Improvements .................................. ($12,000,000)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would appropriate $12 million from the General Fund to the Village of Ridgewood in Bergen County to offset the costs of infrastructure improvements that are needed to mitigate per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) pollution in the drinking water system. 

     The Ridgewood Water Department, also known as Ridgewood Water, is a public community water system that serves over 60,000 residents in Ridgewood, Midland Park, Glen Rock, and Wyckoff.  The sponsor's intent in introducing the legislation is to avoid the significant rate increases that Ridgewood Water would otherwise need to impose on its ratepayers in order to fund the PFAS-related infrastructure improvements.

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