New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 21 - ADMINISTRATIVE GRANTS TO COUNTIES
Section 2:76-21.7 - Awarding of grant
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 2:76-21.7
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Committee shall determine the priority of allocating grants to counties according to the following factors:
1. Priority shall first be given to
counties that have the most agricultural lands to potentially be preserved, indexed
to the county in the State with the most agricultural land to potentially be
preserved, based on the 1997 Agricultural Census or most current U.S. Agricultural
Census data available and adjusted for acreage already preserved for agricultural
purposes.
i. Grant applications shall be assigned
a maximum of 50 points identifying farmland preservation potential based on the
following formula:
County Preservation Potential (Acres) / County With Highest Preservation Potential (Acres) x 50 = ____ points
2. Priority shall next be given to counties that
have the most acreage from farmland preservation applications pending before the
county and the Committee, indexed to the county in the State with the most acreage
from farmland applications pending before the county and the Committee.
i. Grant applications shall be assigned a maximum
of 25 points identifying applications pending based on the following formula:
County Applications Pending (Acres) / County With Most Applications Pending (Acres) x 25 = ____ points
(b) Grants shall be awarded by the Committee in the order of those counties with the highest point total resulting from the combination of (a)1 and 2 above.
(c) The Committee shall enter into a grant agreement with the county.
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