[brief] The Public Access Law begins with a lengthy declaration of legislative findings, including numerous references to the importance of the Public Trust Doctrine and to the public's long-standing rights under the Doctrine to use the State's tidal waters and adjacent shorelines.  N.J.S.A. 13:10-150.  However, notably absent from the plain language of the Law’s legislative findings or other provisions is any language to suggest that the Legislature intended to expand, rather than codify, the scope of the Public Trust Doctrine.  To the contrary, the Legislature's findings that the State has a duty to promote, protect and safeguard the public's rights and ensure reasonable and meaningful public access to tidal waters and adjacent shorelines are, in every instance, qualified by the phrase “pursuant to the Public Trust Doctrine” or “consistent with the Public Trust Doctrine. ”  N.J.S.A. 13:1D-150(d).  Similar language in Subsection (e) of the Law’s legislative findings, N.J.S.A. 13:1D-150(e), explains that the Department has the authority and duty to protect the public's right \textsuperscript{10}  Pages 51 and 52 of the [...] decision provide a thorough discussion of the Public Trust Doctrine. of access “under the public trust doctrine and statutory law. ”  The operative provisions of the Public Access Law begin with Section 4(a) (N.J.S.A. 13:10-153), which provides that if a coastal permit application proposes a change in the existing footprint of a structure or a change in the use of the property, [T]he Department shall review the existing public access provided to tidal waters and adjacent shorelines and shall require that additional public access be provided consistent with the public trust doctrine.  Emphasis added.  This provision, by its plain language, limits the Department's ability to require public access to only those cases where there is existing public access and only when doing so is consistent with the Public Trust Doctrine.  This limitation also did not arise in a vacuum; it is a testament to the Legislature's understanding of the facts of the [...] and [...] decisions, the latter of which hinged in large part on the longstanding prior use of the property by the public.  The Public Access Law subsequently goes on to reiterate, once again, that additional public access can only be required consistent with and to the extent authorized by the Public Trust Doctrine.  There is nothing to suggest that the public’s rights under the Public Trust Doctrine were in any way redefined, nor does the Law indicate what the new scope of redefined rights may be.  This is because, as its plain language dictates, the Public Access Law does not provide the Department with any new authority to impose public access requirements.  Instead, the Law codifies and clarifies the Department’s authority to require public access across private property in a manner consistent with the New Jersey Supreme Court’s rulings in [...] and [...].  In fact, and as those decisions confirm, the Department’s authority to require a private party to create new public shoreline access at their property is limited to only those instances where public access already exists at the site in question. \footnote{This notwithstanding, Appellant has offered to provide monetary compensation for the improvement of an existing public access facility.}  B.