New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 2 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter 76 - STATE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Subchapter 6 - ACQUISITION OF DEVELOPMENT EASEMENTS
Section 2:76-6.6 - Preliminary Committee review
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Committee shall review and evaluate all applications received from the boards in accordance with the criteria set forth in 2:76-6.1 6.
(b) Except for those applications submitted pursuant to (c) below, for any application which is submitted in excess of the maximum number of applications authorized by the Committee pursuant to 2:76-6.1 1(a) per county, the Committee may grant preliminary approval only if it finds that the application is of superior quality and that there is a substantial likelihood that the land would change from productive agriculture to nonagricultural use prior to the next funding round.
(c) The Committee shall grant preliminary approval to an application which is in excess of the maximum number of applications authorized pursuant to 2:76-6.1 1(a) per county, only if the application is for a farm which is located in more than one county and is selected by at least one other board as one of its applications not requiring Committee approval.
(d) The Committee shall establish a preliminary ranking of the approved applications based on the applicant's quality score and inform the board at least 15 days prior to the Committee's certification of a development easement value.