Sustainable and Resilient Remediation
Regulation / Statute
Remediation legislation approved in 2019 that establishes in law that the NJDEP shall encourage the use of green and sustainable practices during site remediation.
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2018/Bills/AL19/263_.PDF
NJDEP rules with references to green and sustainable remediation can be found in this resource
https://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/regs/arrcs/index.html
https://www.nj.gov/dep/rules/rules/njac7_26c.pdf
NJ law passed that requires the NJDEP to consider the cummulative public health impacts to overburdened communitoes when reviewing development applications, including landfills, waste mangement facilities, incinerators, etc..
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/PL20/92_.PDF
Remediation legislation approved in 2019 that establishes in law that the NJDEP shall encourage the use of green and sustainable practices during site remediation.
https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2020/S0500/232_I1.HTM
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2018/Bills/AL19/263_.PDF
Website
NJDEP resource web page, the link contains the contacts for regulatory questions (GSR is now in statute and well as rules (N.J.A.C. 7:26C)) including the contact for Green Remediation. NJ uses Green Remediation in the broadest sense, the NJDEP contact would have sustainability information as well.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/srra/srra_contacts.htm
NJDEP technical guidance on Technical Impracticability (TI) contains a reference to the Sustainable Remediation Tool. NJ allows the use of such tools when evaluating for TI.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/guidance/#tech_impractibility
https://www.nj.gov/dep/srp/guidance/srra/ti_guidance_gw.pdf
Climate
Executive Order
This website is the first stop for all things climate change and resiliency in NJ. From the governor’s press release, 10/29/2019: “The Executive Order also establishes a Climate and Flood Resilience Program within the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, which will be led by a Chief Resilience Officer. Additionally, the Executive Order creates an Interagency Council on Climate Resilience, comprised of 16 state agencies to develop short- and long-term action plans that will promote the long-term mitigation, adaptation, and resilience of New Jersey’s economy, communities, infrastructure, and natural resources.” The Tech Sheet: New Jersey SRR Resources refences EO 89.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/climatechange/resilience.html
https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-89.pdf
Website
News articles, background documents, grant proposals, outreach documents, and other links for NJ resiliency planning on a regional basis. Includes a page on a planning tool kit for municipalities and counties.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/bcrp/resilientnj/resources.html
This is the clearing house web page for the Climate and Flood Resilience Program in NJDEP. The page was established in response to Executive Order No.89 (2019)
Climate change information for New Jersey. Includes multiple links including “Climate Basics”, “NJ Climate Data”, “Take Action”, “Climate Resilience for NJ” and the “2020 New Jersey Scientific Report on Climate Change”
https://www.nj.gov/dep/climatechange/
NJDEP green infrastructure web page. Green Infrastructure refers to methods of stormwater management that reduce wet weather/stormwater volume, flow, or changes the characteristics of the flow into combined or separate sanitary or storm sewers, or surface waters, by allowing the stormwater to infiltrate, to be treated by vegetation or by soils; or to be stored for reuse.
Report
NJDEP press release on “The Rising Seas and Coastal Storms” study and links to the “Statewide Climate Resilience Strategy”. Links to each of these are in the press release.
https://www.nj.gov/dep/newsrel/2019/19_0098.htm
https://www.nj.gov/dep/climatechange/pdf/nj-rising-seas-changing-coastal-storms-stap-report.pdf
Wildfire
Website
New Jersey Forest Fire Service fire webpage, includes a link to a pages on wildfire mitigation, education, publications and resources.
