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Article: SEN. KYRILLOS' BILL WILL UPDATE SHORE PROTECTION PLAN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 3, 2008
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The New Jersey State Senate Republicans issued the following news release:
Senator Joe Kyrillos, the Senior Republican Member of the Senate Economic Growth Committee, introduced legislation yesterday that will require the Department of Environmental Protection to update the New Jersey Shore Protection Master Plan. The current plan has been in effect since 1981. New Jersey has 127 miles of coastline and the state's tourism industry generates more that $38 billion in economic activity and more than $ 2 billion in revenue for the state treasury.
"It is vital that we reform the Shore Protection Master Plan," Kyrillos stated. "We must provide for economic expansion, while continuing to protect ...