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The New Jersey state government therefore directed the County and Municipal Government Commission to study the issue and come up with recommendations for action. The Commission (which included Samuel Alito, Sr., the father of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ) released a report in 1973 entitled "Water Quality Management: New Jersey's ...
The deadlock on action to protect wetlands was broken in 1987. On June 9, 1987, Governor Kean declared an 18-month moratorium on development in any of New Jersey's remaining 300,000 acres of freshwater wetlands, saying that he would lift the moratorium as soon as the New Jersey legislature sent him a bill protecting the wetlands that he could sign.
The act is intended to preserve both large volumes of New Jersey's fresh water sources for 5.4 million residents and the biodiversity in the area, in the face of increasing development in the exurbs of New York City. [3] The act was signed into law on August 10, 2004, by Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey. [2]
The state of New Jersey in the United States owns and administers over 354,000 acres (1,430 km 2) of land designated as "Wildlife Management Areas" (abbreviated as "WMA") throughout the state. These areas are managed by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, an agency in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. [1]
The Pinelands Protection Act, passed by the New Jersey Legislature in June 1979, required the development of a Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP) for the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a relatively undeveloped, ecologically unique area in New Jersey. The goal of the CMP was to state the rules on how the land may be used.
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The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH) was a regulatory agency in the Port of New York and New Jersey in the northeast of the United States. The bi-state agency was founded in 1953 by a Congressional authorized compact between New York and New Jersey "for the purpose of eliminating various evils on the waterfront in the Port of New York Harbor."
Daniel R. Benson (born November 22, 1975) is an American Democratic Party politician who is the current Mercer County Executive and a former member of the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 14th Legislative District.