58:1B-9.2 New Jersey Water Supply Authority Round Valley Fund.

7. a. The New Jersey Water Supply Authority Round Valley Fund is established as a nonlapsing, special fund in the Department of the Treasury. The moneys in the fund are specifically dedicated and allocated to, and shall be used to defray the additional, reasonable energy or water expenses incurred by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority in replenishing the water released from the Round Valley reservoir for the purpose of sustaining water recreational activities at the Spruce Run reservoir as provided in subsection a. of section 8 of P.L.1958, c.34 (C.58:22-8). Interest received on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund may not be used for the routine operation and maintenance expenses of the authority. Moneys in the fund may be used by the Department of Environmental Protection for the additional, reasonable expenses incurred for additional monitoring which may be necessary, from time to time, to augment the continuous monitoring required of the department pursuant to section 8 of P.L.2001, c.82 (C.58:22-8.1).

(1) The fund shall be fully funded at a first year level of $350,000, and shall be fully funded annually thereafter at a level of not less than $225,000 but not more than $350,000 on July 1 of each fiscal year.

(2) The Legislature shall annually appropriate from the General Fund to the fund such sums as may be necessary to maintain the levels prescribed in this subsection, except that no annual appropriation shall be less than $40,000.

b. The sum of $350,000 shall be deposited in the fund from the moneys made available pursuant to section 9 of P.L.2001, c.82, and from all interest received from the investment of moneys in the fund, and from any moneys which, from time to time, may otherwise become available for the purposes of the fund.

c. Pending the use thereof as provided in subsection a. of this section, the moneys in the fund shall be held in interest-bearing accounts in public depositories as defined in section 1 of P.L.1970, c.236 (C.17:9-41), and may be invested and reinvested in such securities as are approved by the State Treasurer, in the manner provided by law.

L.2001,c.82,s.7.