3. a. The department shall study the nature and extent of the areas affected by flooding in the State. After public hearing upon notice, and pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.),the department shall adopt rules and ...
That is a false statement. The DEP stormwater rule eliminated water quality standards in the prior stormwater rules, including for nutrients and suspended/dissolved solids, the primary non-point source pollutants (also the primary causes of Harmful Algae Blooms that are closing NJ lakes to recreation...
Additionally, under the NJ State Development and Redevelopment Plan,the DEP and State Planning Commission have mapped coastal “centers” for intense growth, under relaxed DEP coastal regulations. Your source,Professor Stu Farrellhas been a longtime cheerleader for beach rep...
Additionally – a critical fact not mentioned by PennEast – is the fact that the ChristieDEP made specific regulatory changes to the freshwater wetlands regulations, stream encroachment regulations, and water quality certificate regulations that specifically apply to this proposed pipeline project and in...
“During the past two decades, despite an increasing number of rules and regulations, with a corresponding increase in responsibilities and workload,DEP staff levels have been reduced by more than 1,000 employees – about 25 percent. Further reductions are continuing to take place as of this wri...
“We were going to win that case,” Picco said. “We started to talk and they said, ‘We’ll come out with rules.'” A March 23, 2003, letter from deputy attorney general Richard Engel to Picco said the DEP “has long planned to promulgate regulations to improve the current Natural ...
(10)the submission may not be in compliance with any rules and regulations applicable to contaminated site remediation; or (11)the remediation may not be protective of the public health, safety, or the environment.” Again, these are the LAST sites that DEP should be prohibited from assuming...
“pre-proposal” review by business interests to avoid strict regulations and provide“advance notice”to allow special interests to intervene behind the scenes and block and weaken DEP rules. EO#2 explicitly seeks“to prevent unworkable, overly-proscriptive or ill-advised rules from being adopted....
Other NJ Governor’s – including Governors Byrne (Pinelands Protection Act), Kean (Freshwater Wetlands Act), Florio(garbage incineration), Whitman (Water Quality Management Planning rules – sewers) and McGreevey (Highlands Act) have used such executive powers to extract major legislative concessions...
because NJ’s highest court upheld a challenge to the C1 rules by the NJ Builders Association. The needless DEP change resulted in the elimination of over 1,600 backlogged qualified “candidate C1 waters” pending upgrade that were listed in the March 2003 NJ Register. Bottom line: the ...