NJ environmental & energy bills in committee on Jan 31

Seven pieces of environmental and energy legislation will be considered in two committees of the New Jersey Senate on Monday, January 31.  Here’s the lineup:


SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

01/31/11 10:00 AM
Committee Room 10, 3rd Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ
S-246  Bateman, C. (R-16); Ciesla, A.R. (R-10)
Prohibits health care institutions from discharging medications into sewer or septic systems.
Related Bill: A-253
   
S-569  Bateman, C. (R-16); Smith, B. (D-17)
Establishes pilot program in DEP for chemical clean-outs in schools.
Related Bill: A-1240
   
S-2467  Smith, B. (D-17); Cardinale, G. (R-39)
Concerns calculation of value for conveyance of certain State-owned lands.
   
S-2557  Smith, B. (D-17); Bateman, C. (R-16)
Authorizes municipalities to sell up to three miles of public streets or roads in fee simple or as an easement interest to connect non-contiguous solar electric generation facility sites.
   
S-2610  Turner, S.K. (D-15)
The “Safe Playing Fields Act”; restricts use of lawn care pesticides at certain child care centers, schools and recreational fields.
   
SENATE ECONOMIC GROWTH
01/31/11 10:30 AM
Committee Room 1, 1st Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ
A-2849  Burzichelli, J.J. (D-3); Quijano, A. (D-20); DeAngelo, W.P. (D-14); Riley, C.M. (D-3Requires BPU orders to be issued in writing and posted on Internet.
Related Bill: S-2441
   
 S-2441  Weinberg, L. (D-37); Sarlo, P.A. (D-36)
Requires BPU orders to be issued in writing and posted on Internet.
Related Bill: A-2849

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Pennsylvania environmental and energy legislation

The following environmental and energy bills have been introduced in the Pennsylvania
Senate and referred to the ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY Committee:

    SB91 (Greenleaf) Amends the Oil and Gas Act, providing for gas mineral rights lease agreement disclosure and indemnification.
  
SB112 (Greenleaf) Requires the construction and maintenance of a bicycle and jogging path of at least one mile in length in any state park of 1, 000 acres or more.
    SB113 ( Greenleaf) Requires the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to inventory all rivers, streams and lakes in this Commonwealth to identify current boating, canoeing, rafting and other recreational activities, including water levels and related water conditions.

           
    SB127 (Williams) Amends the Oil and Gas Act to require the disclosure of the contents of hydraulic fracture fluids used in the drilling of wells.

    SB151 (Pileggi) Amends the Air Pollution Control Act, to provide for the return of 25 percent of fines over $50,000 to the municipality in which the violation occurred.

   
SB152 (D. White) Amends the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority Act to make storm water projects designed to manage urban runoff eligible for funding under certain conditions.   


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New Jersey environmental & energy legislation

New Jersey Dome Seven new environmental and energy bills are pending introduction in the 
New Jersey Legislature. The Assembly bills below will be introduced today.
The Senate bills will be introduced on Jan. 31, 2011


A-3750 Holzapfel, J.W. (R-10) 
Provides State income tax credit for removal of lawns near Barnegat Bay.
A-3751 Vainieri Huttle, V. (D-37)
Concerns environmental permits in low-income, minority communities.
Related Bill: S-1209
A-3756 Lampitt, P.R. (D-6)
Provides tax credits to certain businesses for certain capital investment in qualified business facilities and qualified residential projects located in vicinity of designated transit villages.
S-2646 Cunningham, S.B. (D-31)
Authorizes incinerator authorities to perform sanitation, public works, and environmental services.

S-2658 Greenstein, L.R. (D-14) Expands programs in BPU to include low-interest loans and grants to municipalities for energy efficient programs and innovative energy technologies. Related Bill: A-2218

S-2661 Vitale, J.F. (D-19); Whelan, J. (D-2)
Provides for transfer and sale of inactive liquor licenses for use in qualifying smart growth municipalities.

S-2663 Oroho, S.V. (R-24)
Creates New Jersey Business Action Center. _____________________________________________________________________________

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These seniors won’t take no recycling for an answer


Last year, 13 percent homeowners in Quakertown, Pennsylvania were not recycling.

Today, that figure is down to 6 percent.

And it’s all thanks to the Green Ladies.

How did they do it? 

Detective work, coat hangers and some “gentle prodding” (not with the coat hangers).

You can read their story at: Seniors help boost recycling


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Want to run a golf course? Give the NJDEP a call


The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to get out of the golf business and is looking for a private company to manage and operate Spring Meadow Golf Course, an 18-hole DEP-owned public facility in Wall Township, Monmouth County.
What? You didn’t know that the DEP operates a golf course?  Most people don’t.  And, soon the DEP hopes you won’t need to, as they seek to get out of that business.

DEP Commissioner Bob Martin says that private management for Spring Meadow is part of  a comprehensive reconsider of how the agency manages and finances its entire State Park system.
“Bringing in a professional golf management company should enhance revenues at Spring Meadow while allowing DEP personnel employed at the golf course to be reassigned to other necessary tasks in our State parks, Martin said. 
“Gov. Christie has made a commitment to keep all of our State’s parks open during these tough economic times to ensure a continuation of affordable recreation for all State residents. But it will require some creative re-thinking of how we operate this system, and how we can cut costs, increase revenues and better utilize our DEP personnel and resources.”
How the State of  New Jersey got into the golfing business

Spring Meadow Golf Course and driving range was acquired by the DEP in the 1970s through the Green Acres Program and has been operated by the Department since then. Private companies manage the three other golf courses owned by the Department. They are the Centerton Golf Course at Parvin State Park in Pittsgrove, Cream Ridge Golf Course in Upper Freehold Township, and the White Oaks Country Club in Newfield.
The DEP never operated the other three courses. When it purchased the Centerton, Cream Ridge and White Oaks courses, the Green Acres Program negotiated management contracts into the terms of those acquisitions. The sellers were allowed to continue operating those golf courses after DEP took ownership, but for a limited period of time. In the case of Centerton Golf Course, for example, the DEP in 2008 publicly bid the management contract.
What DEP’s looking for in a golf course manager
The Department is seeking an operator for Spring Meadow that has experience and knowledge in operating golf courses, is financially stable, and shows strength in customer service commitment and employee performance. 
The winning bidder will enter into a five-year operating agreement with the DEP and will have the potential to renew the operating agreement for an additional five-year term. The successful bidder will pay the State a fixed annual fee, adjusted annually by the Consumer Price Index, plus a percentage of its annual gross revenue earned from course operations.
The winning bidder will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the golf course and will be responsible for its full-time operation, as well as its commercial development.
Bidders meeting set for January 31

A mandatory bidders meeting will be held at Spring Meadow Golf Course at the clubhouse/pro shop on Jan. 31, 2011 at 10 a.m.  The deadline for submitting proposals is Feb. 22, 2011.

Interested?  Here’s a copy of the state’s RFP.  Good luck!


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