Section 58:25-29 - Abatement assistance funda. There is established in the Department of Environmental Protection a non-lapsing fund, to be known as the "Municipal Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Assistance Fund." There shall be deposited in the fund, moneys appropriated pursuant to this act, any other appropriations as may be made thereto by law, and any interest earned thereon. Upon disbursement of all monies in the fund, the fund shall terminate. b. The department is authorized, pursuant to the provisions of this act, to provide grants from the fund to municipalities for the inventory and mapping of stormwater systems pursuant to subsection b. of section 3 of this act and for the planning and design necessary to eliminate unpermitted interconnections of stormwater sewer systems and sanitary sewage systems and to abate nonpoint sources of pollution directly entering salt waters pursuant to section 5 of this act. For the purposes of this subsection, planning may include the costs of monitoring water quality at outfall lines for stormwater sewers.c. The department is authorized, pursuant to the provisions of this act, to provide grants from the fund to municipalities and other public entities controlling or operating combined stormwater sewer and sanitary sewage systems for the planning and design of abatement measures at any combined sewer overflow point.d. Prior to the award of any grant, the department shall notify the presiding officers of both houses of the Legislature in writing of the applications received, the grant recipients, the amounts requested, amounts to be granted and the purposes for which the grants shall be used.