CHARTER OF THE GREENWOOD LAKE COMMISSION

By law (N.J.S.A. S1788:1R; P.L. 1999 c.402 and NYA00294 S416-A), the Greenwood Lake Commission shall:

Assess present and projected development, land use, and land management practices and patterns, and identify actual and potential environmental threats and problems, around Greenwood Lake and within its watershed, and determine the effects of those practices and patterns, threats, and problems upon the natural, scenic, and recreational resources of Greenwood Lake and its watershed;

 

• Develop recommended regulations, procedures, policies, planning strategies, and model ordinances and resolutions pertaining to the protection, preservation, maintenance, management, and enhancement of Greenwood Lake and its watershed, which would be implemented as appropriate on a voluntary basis by those entities with representatives on the commission;
  
  
• Coordinate environmental clean up, maintenance, and protection efforts undertaken, for the benefit of Greenwood Lake and its watershed, by those entities with representatives on the commission;
  
  
• Coordinate with the Department of Environmental Protection’s watershed management program for the area that includes Greenwood Lake;
• Recommend appropriate state legislation and administrative action pertaining to the protection, preservation, maintenance, management, and enhancement of Greenwood Lake and its watershed;
  
• Advocate, and where appropriate, act as a coordinating, distributing, or recipient agency for, federal, state, or private funding of environmental cleanup, maintenance, and protection projects for Greenwood Lake and its watershed, which projects may include the work of the commission;
  
• Take such other action as may be appropriate or necessary to further the purpose of the bi-state Acts creating this commission.

 

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