N.J. Stat. § 58:1A-23

6. In order to facilitate achievement of the State goal, as set forth in this act, to fully restore, promote, preserve, and maintain the environmental health and water quality of the Rahway river system, the committee shall: a. develop recommended regional planning strategies and other regional policies, procedures, and model ordinances and resolutions, which would be implemented by each member municipality and county on a voluntary basis; b. where appropriate, coordinate efforts of member municipalities and counties to clean up the Rahway river system or any tributary or watershed land thereof and to alleviate flooding conditions in that river system; c. recommend appropriate State legislation and administrative action; and d. advocate, and where appropriate, act as a coordinating, distributing, or recipient agency for, federal and State funding of environmental protection projects in river municipalities and river counties, which projects may include the work of the committee. L.1997,c.342,s.6.