Tidelands Resource Council is the public body responsible for the stewardship of the State's riparian lands; that it is the responsibility of the council to determine whether applications for the lease, license, or grant of riparian lands are in the public interest; that it is the responsibility of the council to determine, in assessing applications for the lease, license, or grant of riparian lands, whether the State may have a future use for such lands; that the council must obtain the fair market value for the lease, license or grant of riparian lands in accordance with court decisions and legal opinions of the Attorney General.

The Tidelands Resource Council is a body of twelve Governor

Governor of New Jersey

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-appointed members. The Council meets monthly and makes decisions to sell or rent state tidelands

Tidelands

Tidelands are the territory between the high and low water tide line of sea coasts, and lands lying under the sea beyond the low-water limit of the tide, considered within the territorial waters of a nation. The United States Constitution does not specify whether ownership of these lands rests with...

. All of the decisions must then be approved by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

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, the Attorney General and the Governor. The council meets the first Wednesday of every month at 501 East State Street, Station Plaza #4, Trenton, NJ

Trenton, New Jersey

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. Council meetings begin at 10 am and are open to the public.

For 2010, riparian lease

Lease

A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee to pay the lessor for use of an asset. A rental agreement is a lease in which the asset is tangible property...

 rates have a base rate of 49 cents per square foot per year for areas 700 square feet (65 m²) and larger.

Current members of the Council are:

• Stuart Challoner of Island Heights
  Island Heights, New Jersey
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• Jay A. Davidson of Brick
• Richard Hale of Edison
  Edison, New Jersey
  Edison Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey. What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township...
  
  
• George Kimmerle of Mendham Township
  Mendham Township, New Jersey
  Mendham Township is an affluent township in Morris County, in the central portion of northern New Jersey, United States, located more than due west of New York City. As of the 2000 United States Census, the township population was 5,400...
  
  
• Robert Neff of Little Silver
  Little Silver, New Jersey
  Little Silver is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 5,950.Little Silver was established with a Kings Land Grant in 1663 and settled in 1667...
  
  
• Mary Pat Robbie of Marlton
  Marlton, New Jersey
  Marlton is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Evesham Township in Burlington County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the population of Marlton was 10,260.-History:...
  
  
• Bethany Rocque-Romaine of Old Bridge
• Peter R Strohm of Lakewood
• Barbara Trought, Vice Chair
• Lloyd Tubman
• Thomas C. Voltaggio of Cherry Hill
  Cherry Hill, New Jersey
  Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, representing an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census...
  
  
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