Bill Text: NJ S580 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S580 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S580-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 580

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JON M. BRAMNICK

District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Singer

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Appropriates $5 million to Cranford Township for flood control projects.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

A Supplement to the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, P.L.2021, c.133.

 

     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.2021, c.133, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, there is appropriated from the General Fund the following amount for the purpose specified:

 

42 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

40 Community Development and Environmental Management

42 Natural Resource Management

 

 

GRANTS-IN-AID

21-4895  Natural Resources Engineering  .......................... $5,000,000

                 Total Grants-In-Aid Appropriation,                                      

                   Natural Resource Management ....................... $5,000,000

Grants:

         21    Cranford Township Flood Control....... ($5,000,000)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection to provide Cranford Township in Union County with a grant of $5,000,000 to finance the Cranford Northeast Quadrant Flood Control Project, which includes the following projects:  1) construction of a pumping station to convey storm water into the main channel of the Rahway river; 2) improvements to express and local storm sewers; 3) development of wetland delineation data; and 4) elevation of existing earthen dikes along the Rahway river.  While similar legislation appropriating $3,250,000 was enacted in December, 2000 (P.L.2000, c.170), these funds were never utilized, having been subsequently lapsed to the General Fund to help alleviate a State Budget deficit.