13:1E-99.124 Economic benefit for municipality.
3. a. Any municipality within which an authorized food waste recycling facility is located, pursuant to an adopted district solid waste management plan approved after the effective date of P.L.2020, c.24 (C.13:1E-99.122 et al.), shall be entitled to an economic benefit of not less than the equivalent of $0.50 per ton, to be paid and adjusted quarterly, of all food waste accepted for processing at the authorized food waste recycling facility during the 2021 calendar year and each year thereafter. The owner or operator of the authorized food waste recycling facility shall pay quarterly to the municipality the full amount due under this subsection. The municipality is authorized to anticipate this amount for the purposes of preparing its annual budget.
b. For the purposes of calculating the payments, the owner or operator of the authorized food waste recycling facility may, subject to the prior agreement of the municipality and approval of the Department of Environmental Protection, provide the municipality with any of the following benefits in consideration for the use of land within the municipality's boundaries as the location of the authorized food waste recycling facility:
(1) quarterly payments of money in lieu of taxes on the land used for the authorized food waste recycling center or other authorized facility;
(2) exemption from all fees and charges for the acceptance of food waste for composting, anaerobic or aerobic digestion, or other processing, as approved by the department, of food waste generated within the municipality's boundaries;
(3) quarterly lump sum cash payments; or
(4) any combination thereof.
L.2020, c.24, s.3.