New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 17 - COUNTY PLANNING INCENTIVE GRANTS
Section 2:76-17.8 - Annual funding eligibility
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 2:76-17.8
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) For each county planning incentive grant funding cycle, the Committee shall establish the amount of the base grant available to each county that has received approval of an annual planning application pursuant to the following:
1.
The Committee shall review the county's performance over the previous three funding
cycles to determine if the county has expended State cost share funds on a timely
basis. The degree to which the county has expended all previously allocated grant
funding will determine to what extent the county is eligible to receive the minimum
annual base grant for the next funding cycle according to the following:
i. If the county has expended at least 50 percent
of the total grant funds appropriated to the county in the previous three funding
cycles, the county is eligible for 100 percent of the maximum base grant available
to it;
ii. If the county has expended at
least 25 percent, but less than 50 percent of the total grant funds appropriated to
the county in the previous three funding cycles, the county is eligible for 50
percent of the maximum base grant available to it; or
iii. If the county has expended less than 25
percent of the total grant funds appropriated to the county in the previous three
funding cycles, the county is ineligible for a base grant award.
2. The Committee may adjust any
county's base grant eligibility, or withhold a base grant entirely, based on factors
including, but not limited to, projected expenditures as described in its annual
planning application, availability of unexpended grant balances, past performance,
and sufficient need.
3. The county shall
expend funds within three years of the date the funds are appropriated or risk the
loss of those funds and funding eligibility in subsequent funding cycles.
(b) For each funding cycle, the Committee shall establish a maximum combined amount of planning incentive grant funds that any county may receive from both its base grant and from the competitive grant fund.
1. The SADC shall identify the total
amount of funds available for expenditure in the competitive grant fund for each
funding cycle.
2. If at any time during
the funding cycle, a board seeks final approval for an eligible farm for which there
are insufficient funds remaining in the county's base grant, the request for final
approval will be applied to the funding available in the competitive grant fund
pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
2:76-17.14.
i.
Competitive grant funds will be available to counties having received approval of an
annual planning application submitted pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
2:76-17.7, regardless of base grant
eligibility.
3. Counties may
continue to qualify for funds available in the competitive grant fund up to the
total maximum grant eligibility established pursuant to (b) above.
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