With the threat of losing millions in federal transportation funds, New Jersey is among several states pursuing legislation to lower the state's blood-alcohol concentration limit from 0.10 percent to 0.08.

Since 2000, New Jersey is one of only about a dozen states yet to adopt legislation signed by then-President Clinton that requires each state to define legally drunk as 0.08 percent blood alcohol content or lose federal highway dollars.

The Garden State stands to lose $72 million in highway aid over the next four years if it doesn't enact the standard.

A682, sponsored by Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg, D-Teaneck, is in the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee.