[CPEO-MEF] Artificial Reefs - New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State may buy ships for artificial reef

Published in
By KIRK MOORE
the Asbury Park Press
September 14, 2004

TRENTON -- For the first time in the 20 years of the state's artificial 
reef program, state legislators are proposing to spend about $250,000 in 
a bid to obtain five large Navy surplus ships -- a financial commitment 
that reef advocates say would be worth far more in the federal support 
it will bring to building fish havens.

"Ninety percent of the (ship) cleaning costs would be paid by the feds," 
said Steven D. Nagiewicz, a Brick diver and captain of the dive boat 
Diversion II out of Point Pleasant Beach. "There's 12 to 15 other 
states, Florida especially, that are looking to get these ships."

The state Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee voted yesterday 
to release bill A-2630 for a vote by the full Assembly. Sponsored 
jointly by Assembly members Christopher Bateman, R-Somerset, and Robert 
J. Smith II, D-Gloucester, the legislation would set aside $250,000 to 
prepare surplus ships for sinking, but Bateman said he is planning to 
amend the language to allot $50,000 per ship as they are acquired.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1050463,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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