58:12A-23. Funding of study to determine extent water supplies contaminated with hazardous substances; allocation for loans to municipalities to provide alternate water supply for persons with contaminated water supply
a. Of the monies made available for the cleanup of hazardous discharge sites pursuant to P.L.1986, c.144 (C.54:10A-5.1 et seq.) and transferred to the "Water Supply Replacement Trust Fund" pursuant to section 3 of this act, the sum of $1,000,000 is allocated for the purpose of funding a study to be conducted by the department to determine the extent to which water supplies are contaminated or are threatened by contamination with hazardous substances and to develop recommendations for dealing with such contaminated or threatened water supplies, and $2,000,000.00 is allocated for conducting site specific feasibility studies authorized pursuant to section 1 of this act.
b. Of the monies made available for the cleanup of hazardous discharge sites pursuant to P.L.1986, c.144 (C.54:10A-5.1 et seq.) and transferred to the "Water Supply Replacement Trust Fund" pursuant to section 3 of this act, the sum of $57,000,000 is allocated for the purpose of providing loans to municipalities or municipally-owned or privately-owned public water systems as defined in section 3 of P.L.1977, c.224 (C.58:12A-3) for the purpose of providing a permanent alternate water supply to persons whose principal source of potable water is contaminated or is threatened with contamination by hazardous substances as identified by the department.
L.1988, c.106, s.2; amended 1989,c.311,s.2.