SENATE LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 26

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED: FEBRUARY 15, 1996

 

      The Senate Legislative Oversight Committee reports favorably Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 26 with amendments.

      This concurrent resolution embodies the finding of the Legislature that the regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection concerning a fee schedule for NJPDES permittees and applicants, codified at N.J.A.C.7:14A-1.8, is not consistent with legislative intent pursuant to Article V, Section IV, paragraph 6 of State Constitution.

      The concurrent resolution finds that the NJPDES permit fee regulations for wastewater facilities are unreasonable given the extremely high fees imposed on many permittees and because the regulations allow for the imposition of numerous costs that are clearly beyond the permissible purposes allowed by statute.

      The Commissioner of Environmental Protection will have 30 days to withdraw or amend the inconsistent regulations or the Legislature may, by the passage of another concurrent resolution, invalidate the regulations in whole or in part.