In  order  to  further the purposes of article 57 of this chapter, the
  commissioner  shall  provide,  within  amounts  appropriated  from   the
  environmental   protection  fund,  state  assistance  payments  for  the
  preparation of the comprehensive central  pine  barrens  land  use  plan
  pursuant  to  section 57-0121 of this chapter. State assistance payments
  may be made to the  central  pine  barrens  joint  planning  and  policy
  commission  established  in  article 57 of this chapter for all eligible
  costs incurred after April  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three.  No
  monies  shall  be  expended  for  Long  Island central pine barrens area
  planning except pursuant to an appropriation therefor.
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