SENATE, No. 459

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED JANUARY 18, 1996

By Senator SINGER

An Act concerning innovative technologies remediation demonstration experiments and supplementing Title 13 of the Revised Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. a. There is established within the Site Remediation Program in the Department of Environmental Protection the Innovative Technologies Remediation Pilot Project. The purpose of this pilot project shall be to provide bioremediation firms and firms employing innovative technologies with access to hazardous discharge sites, as determined by the department pursuant to subsection b. of this section, to conduct remediation demonstration experiments. Any experiment authorized pursuant to this act shall be designed to determine, without the assessment of fees or charges by the State, the practicability and feasibility of using bioremediation and other innovative technologies as a technique for hazardous discharge site remediation.

    b. Within six months of the effective date of this act, the department shall designate at least two hazardous discharge sites for the purposes of the pilot project established pursuant to subsection a. of this section.

    2. The department shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), any rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.

    3. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would establish within the Site Remediation Program in the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) the Innovative Technologies Remediation Pilot Project. The purpose of the pilot project is to provide bioremediation firms and firms employing innovative technologies, as defined in the bill, with free access to hazardous discharge sites to conduct remediation demonstration experiments. Any experiment authorized pursuant to the bill would be conducted, without the assessment of fees or charges by the State, to evaluate and assess the practicability and feasibility of bioremediation and other innovative technologies a techniques for hazardous discharge site remediation. The bill requires the DEP to designate, within six months of the bill's effective date, two hazardous discharge sites for eligibility as possible sites for remediation demonstration experiments.

Establishes Innovative Technologies Remediation Pilot Project in DEP.