§ 32:11D-62 — Project costs and evaluation standards

The commission shall establish uniform standards and procedures for the evaluation, determination of benefits, and cost allocations of projects affecting the basin, and for the determination of project priorities, pursuant to the requirements of the comprehensive plan and its water resources program. The commission shall develop equitable cost sharing and reimbursement formulas for the signatory parties including: (a) Uniform and consistent procedures for the allocation of project costs among purposes included in multiple-purpose programs; (b) Contracts and arrangements for sharing financial responsibility among and with signatory parties, public bodies, groups and private enterprise, and for the supervision of their performance; (c) Establishment and supervision of a system of accounts for reimbursable purposes and directing the payments and charges to be made from such accounts; (d) Determining the basis and apportioning amounts (i) of reimbursable revenues to be paid signatory parties or their political subdivisions, and (ii) of payments in lieu of taxes to any of them. L.1961, c. 13, p. 67, s. 11.4.