There is hereby appropriated from the Water Conservation Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection the sum of $29 million, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the development of future water supply facilities to the following extent:
(a) A sum not to exceed $2 million for the costs of design and engineering for future construction of water supply facilities;
(b) A sum not to exceed $27 million for the acquisition of real property necessary for the future water supply facilities at the following sites:
South River Tidal Dam, Middlesex county; Raritan River Confluence Reservoir, Somerset county; Manasquan River Upper and Lower Reservoirs, Monmouth county; Six-Mile Run Reservoir, Somerset county; Two Bridges Reservoir, Essex and Morris counties; Hackettstown Reservoir, Morris, Sussex and Warren counties.