SENATE ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 605

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: OCTOBER 28, 1996

      The Senate Environment Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 605 with committee amendments.

      This bill would require the owner of any building in which a child care center is located to test the building every five years for the presence of radon gas and radon progeny. The bill would also require the owner of the building to post the results of the test, and any mitigation procedures proposed or performed, at a location readily visible to persons having responsibility for any child that attends the child care center.

      The committee amendments would require that the initial test be conducted within six months of the effective date of the act, or, if the building has been tested less than five years prior to the effective date of the act, within five years of that test and once every five years thereafter. The amendments would also require that the results of a test performed before the effective date of the act be posted within 30 days of the act's effective date. Finally, the amendments would delete the requirement that the Department of Environmental Protection provide the results of the test to any person upon request and would make a technical correction to the bill.