STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: AUGUST 24, 2020
The Assembly Appropriations Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 232 (SCS/1R), with committee amendments.
This bill, as amended by the committee, requires the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to evaluate the environmental and public health stressors of certain facilities on overburdened communities when reviewing certain permit applications.
The bill defines the term “facility” to mean any: (1) major source of air pollution; (2) resource recovery facility or incinerator; (3) sludge processing facility, combustor, or incinerator; (4) sewage treatment plant with a capacity of more than 50 million gallons per day; (5) transfer station or other solid waste facility, or recycling facility intending to receive at least 100 tons of recyclable material per day; (6) scrap metal facility; (7) landfill, including, but not limited to, a landfill that accepts ash, construction or demolition debris, or solid waste; or (8) medical waste incinerator. The term excludes a facility as defined in section 3 of P.L.1989, c.34 (C.13:1E- 48.3) that accepts regulated medical waste for disposal, including a medical waste incinerator, that is attendant to a hospital or university and intended to process self-generated regulated medical waste.
Beginning immediately after the DEP adopts the rules and regulations required by the bill, the DEP would not consider complete for review any application for a permit for a new or expanded facility, or any application for the renewal of an existing facility’s major source permit, if the facility is located in whole or in part in an overburdened community, unless the permit applicant meets certain conditions. Specifically, a permit applicant would be required to…
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