Title 13, Title 13: CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT--PARKS AND RESERVATIONS

13:1E-29. Issuance of bonds or modification or renewal of contracts involving solid waste facility after effective date of act a. The provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, no public authority, county or municipality shall issue any bonds or other obligation…

13:1E-3 Definitions. 3. As used in the provisions of P.L.1970, c.39 (C.13:1E-1 et seq.): "Solid waste" means garbage, refuse, and other discarded materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agricultural operations, and from domestic and community activities, and shall inc…

13:1E-30. State grant for experiental, landfill mining projects; application; evaluation 21. a. The commissioner may make, or contract to make, a State grant to any person engaged in solid waste collection, disposal or utilization activities, to assist that person in experimentin…

13:1E-31. Commitments and grants; approval; findings The commissioner may issue commitments for, and may make or contract to make, grants pursuant to section 21 of this amendatory and supplementary act, upon his approval of any application submitted to him therefor and the findin…

13:1E-32. Change in experimental project; written approval of commissioner Any commitment issued by the commissioner and any contract based thereon shall, in addition to such other terms, covenants and conditions as the commissioner may require, provide that no change may be made…

13:1E-33. Inspections of experimental projects The commissioner shall be entitled to make such inspections of any project, and lands, buildings, improvements or facilities thereon; to request and secure the submission of certifications, data, maps, documents and other information…

13:1E-34. Solid Waste Management Research and Development Fund; creation 25. a. There is hereby created in the Department of Environmental Protection a special fund which shall be known as the Solid Waste Management Research and Development Fund. There shall be included in the fu…

13:1E-34.1. Development of landfill mining demonstration project 1. a. The department shall authorize the development of a landfill mining demonstration project to provide information and experience concerning landfill mining. As used in this act, "landfill mining" means the exca…

13:1E-34.2. Provisions of "Pinelands Protection Act" not modified 5. Nothing in sections 1 through 4 of P.L.1994, c.99 (C.13:1E-34.1 et al.), shall be construed to modify the provisions of the "Pinelands Protection Act," P.L.1979, c.111 (C.13:18A-1 et seq.) or any rule or regulat…

13:1E-35. Liberal construction; severability The object and design of this amendatory and supplementary act being the protection and preservation of public health, safety and welfare, and the creation of solid waste management districts based upon the counties of this State and t…

13:1E-36. Exemption of construction and operation of planned disposal facility from provisions of act Any board of chosen freeholders which has prepared a solid waste management plan, purchased land therefore, contracted for the purchase and installation of processing or recyclin…

13:1E-37. Formulation and development of plan; state aid to districts The commissioner is authorized to make grants to any board of chosen freeholders and to the Hackensack Commission, subject to the availability of funds appropriated therefor, for the formulation and development…

13:1E-38. Definitions As used in this act, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires another meaning: a. "Bulk liquids" means liquid or semiliquid waste, including petroleum products, which is contained within, or is di…

13:1E-39. Commercial solid waste facility near river flood hazard area; prohibition of disposal of certain waste materials After January 1, 1977, no commercial solid waste facility located within: 1,000 yards of a river flood hazard area delineated prior to the effective date of …

13:1E-4 Supervision of solid waste collection activities, facilities, disposal operations. 4. The department shall have power to supervise solid waste collection activities, solid waste facilities and solid waste disposal operations, and shall in the exercise of this supervision …

13:1E-40. Hazardous wastes; list; transmittal to department and municipality The registered operator of each solid waste facility shall maintain a list of all hazardous wastes received for disposal, treatment or storage during the past calendar year. The list shall be forwarded t…

13:1E-41. Monitoring wells; samples; analyses; order to discontinue acceptance of wastes; reacceptance; conditions Any solid waste facility accepting hazardous waste, chemical waste, bulk liquids or pesticides for disposal or storage on or in the ground, shall install monitoring …

13:1E-42. System for interception, collection and treatment of leachates; installation by 1980; approval; temporary disposal of septage and sewage sludge at designated solid waste facilities After March 15, 1980, no solid waste facility shall accept or receive for disposal, any h…

13:1E-42.1. Weekly inspection of major hazardous waste facilities The Department of Environmental Protection shall conduct a complete inspection, at least weekly, of each major hazardous waste facility. For the purposes of this act, hazardous waste means any waste or combination …

13:1E-42.2. Assessment for inspection of major hazardous waste facility; schedule The Department of Environmental Protection is hereby authorized to make an assessment against any major hazardous waste facility that handles or disposes of hazardous wastes in an amount sufficient …

13:1E-43. Legislative findings and declarations a. The Legislature hereby finds that the current practice of ocean disposal of sludge, is, to a large degree, responsible for the degradation of the coastal waters of this State and the serious environmental and economic problems re…

13:1E-44. Definitions As used in this act: a. "Sludge" means the solids, precipitates and liquids, other than effluent, which are produced as a result of the storage or treatment of domestic or industrial sewage; provided, however, that any waste material which is disposed of in …

13:1E-45. District solid waste management plans; sludge; inventory and plans for disposal The solid waste management plan developed and formulated for every solid waste management district in this State pursuant to sections 11 through 15 of P.L.1975, c. 326 (C. 13:1E-20 to 13:1E-…

13:1E-46. Statewide solid waste management plan; sludge management strategy; directions to solid waste management district by department a. The Statewide solid waste management plan developed and formulated by the department pursuant to section 6 of the act to which this act is a…

13:1E-47. Disposal of sludge in solid waste management district All sludge generated within the boundaries of any solid waste management district in this State shall be disposed of in a manner which conforms to the Statewide solid waste management plan and the solid waste managem…

13:1E-48. Pursuit and coordination of federal, state or private aid The commissioner shall vigorously pursue all Federal, State or private aid which is available or may become available for the processing or land disposal of sludge and shall coordinate such aid requests as may be…

13:1E-48.1. Short title Sections 1 through 25 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Comprehensive Regulated Medical Waste Management Act." L. 1989, c. 34, s. 1.

13:1E-48.10. Acceptance for disposal No person, including generators, may accept regulated medical waste for disposal within the State or for transfer to an in-state or out-of-state disposal site except upon authorization of the Department of Environmental Protection and payment …

13:1E-48.11. Instruction The departments shall provide at least written instruction on the proper and safe tracking, identification, packaging, storage, control, monitoring, handling, collection, and disposal of regulated medical waste to every transporter, facility or organizati…

13:1E-48.12. Regulation of flow a. The Department of Environmental Protection, in conjunction with the Board of Public Utilities, shall adopt appropriate rules or regulations or issue administrative orders providing for the interdistrict or intradistrict flow of regulated medical…

13:1E-48.13. State regulated medical waste management plan a. The departments shall study the issue of regulated medical waste in the State and prepare a comprehensive State regulated medical waste management plan addressing the immediate, interim, and long-term needs of the Stat…

13:1E-48.14. Commercial facilities a. Every existing incinerator or facility in operation as of the effective date of this act that accepts regulated medical waste for disposal shall be incorporated within the relevant district solid waste management plan required pursuant to the…

13:1E-48.15. County shortfall determination a. Upon the submission to the Governor and the Legislature of the comprehensive State regulated medical waste management plan prepared by the departments pursuant to section 13 of this act, the Department of Environmental Protection sha…

13:1E-48.16. County options a. Within 12 months of the receipt of a written determination of need and notification of a regulated medical waste disposal capacity shortfall pursuant to section 15 of this act, the governing body of the affected county shall provide for the regulate…

13:1E-48.16a Preparation, adoption of sharps disposal component for district solid waste management plan. 10. a. The board of chosen freeholders of each county and the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, in accordance with standards adopted by the Commissioner of Environmental Pro…

13:1E-48.16b Rules, regulations. 11. a. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to…

13:1E-48.17. Noncompliance determination a. On or after the first day of the 25th month following the effective date of this act, the department shall make a written determination as to whether each county required to provide for its regulated medical waste disposal requirements …

13:1E-48.18. Payments to county; surcharges a. Any county within which a solid waste facility is located pursuant to an adopted and approved district solid waste management plan, which facility is a designated recipient of regulated medical waste pursuant to an interdistrict or i…

13:1E-48.19. Regional procedures The departments shall seek the cooperation of their counterparts in the states of New York and Pennsylvania in developing regional regulated medical waste tracking, identification, packaging, storage, control, monitoring, handling, collection, and…

13:1E-48.2 Findings, declarations. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. Various human and animal health care centers and clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and other facilities generate substantial volumes of medical waste that must be transported and disposed in a sanit…

13:1E-48.20 Enforcement. 20. a. This act, and any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall be enforced by the departments and by every local board of health, or county health department, as the case may be. The departments and the local board of health, or the county he…

13:1E-48.21. Strict liability Any person who violates any provision of this act, which violation proximately results in the discharge of regulated medical waste into the waters or onto the land of this State, shall be strictly liable, jointly and severally, without regard to faul…

13:1E-48.22. Temporary approval During the first registration year of each applicant, or the year following any violation of this act resulting in a revocation of registration, the departments may give temporary approval of registrations conditioned upon the applicant's effecting…

13:1E-48.23 Revocation; suspension of registration; reissuance, reinstatement. 23. a. The departments, after hearing, may revoke or suspend the registration issued to any transporter or facility upon a finding that the transporter or facility has: (1) violated this act, or any ru…

13:1E-48.23a Violations, revocation of generator's registration; application for reissuance. 4. If, after a hearing, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and Commissioner of Health and Senior Services determine that a generator is in violation of P.L.1989, c.34 (C.13:1E-4…

13:1E-48.23b Violations, revocation of health care professionals' license; application for reissuance. 5. In addition to any other applicable penalties, if, after a hearing, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection or Commissioner of Health and Senior Services determines that…