SENATE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
SENATE, No. 3004
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: DECEMBER 14, 2009
The Senate Environment Committee favorably reports Senate Bill No. 3004 with committee amendments.
This bill changes the scope of the public notification required of any person responsible for conducting the remediation of a site that has been contaminated with any hazardous substance, hazardous waste or pollutant. Currently, a person is required to provide written notification, which includes a summary of the site conditions and information about actions being taken to remediate the site, to any local property owners and tenants who reside within 200 feet of the contaminated site. This bill changes this provision to require that written notification be made only to local property owners and tenants who reside within 200 feet of any “area of concern” within the contaminated site. Under the law, “area of concern” is defined as any location where contaminants are or were known or suspected to have been discharged, generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, handled, treated, or disposed, or where contaminants have or may have migrated.
The committee amendments would clarify the department's regulatory responsibility with regard to public notification by correcting sentence syntax.