32:20B-6 Duties of commission.

6. The duties of the commission shall be to:

a. identify existing and projected flood hazards in the bistate region;

b. recommend, propose and coordinate a comprehensive plan to remediate existing and projected flood hazards in the bistate region;

c. assess present and projected development, land use, and land management practices and patterns, and identify actual and potential environmental threats and problems, in the bistate region, and determine the effects of those practices and patterns, threats, and problems upon the natural, scenic, and recreational resources of the bistate region;

d. offer recommended regulations, procedures, policies, planning strategies, and model ordinances and resolutions pertaining to the protection, preservation, maintenance, management, and enhancement of the bistate region, which would be implemented as appropriate on a voluntary basis by the municipalities within the bistate region, provided, however, that the commission shall not adopt rules or regulations;

e. coordinate environmental cleanup, maintenance, and protection efforts undertaken, for the benefit of the bistate region, by the municipalities within the bistate region;

f. coordinate with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, including, but not limited to, their watershed management programs, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the municipalities within the bistate region;

g. recommend appropriate state legislation and administrative action pertaining to the protection, preservation, maintenance, management, and enhancement of the bistate region;

h. advocate, and where appropriate, act as a coordinating, distributing, or recipient agency for, federal, state, or private funding of environmental cleanup, maintenance, and protection projects, flood prevention projects and flood hazard remediation for the bistate region, which projects may include the work of the commission; and

i. take such other action as may be appropriate or necessary to further the purpose of this act.

L.2011, c.177, s.6.