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The NJDEP enforces the federal Clean Air Act of 1963 through its State Implementation Plan (SIP), a combination of statutes, regulations, rules applying to single facilities in the state, and quasi-regulatory provisions such as plans developed by the NJDEP to address a specific issue.
These rules and regulations go into greater depth and detail than the statutes. The NJDEP's air pollution control rules occupy Title 7, Chapter 27 of the New Jersey Administrative Code, N.J.A.C. 7:27-1 through 34. [13] The NJDEP also administers the programs that implement the law on a practical level.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) implements the Water Pollution Control Act. This includes administering the massive NJPDES permit program (as of May, 2022, there were 13,873 active NJPDES permits). [21]
NJDEP now has a staff of approximately 2,850. The department was created on April 22, 1970, America's first official Earth Day , making it the third state in the country to combine its environmental activities into a single, unified agency, with about 1,400 employees in five divisions, charged with responsibility for environmental protection ...
Nov. 23—The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has reduced its permit backlog by 75% since Nov. 1, 2023 — and has completely eliminated the backlog for oil and gas permits.
In that case, the Phillipsburg Alliance Church of Phillipsburg, Warren County, sued the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection seeking to enjoin her and NJDEP from denying the church an exemption under the Highlands Act which would permit it to build its proposed new church sanctuary on a 30-acre (120,000 m 2) parcel in ...
There were 338 electric vehicles (EVs) registered in New Jersey in 2012. As of June 30 of this year, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, there were 123,723. And if ...
The Act required the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to take over the administration of the Section 404 program of the Clean Water Act, which regulates filling and dredging of "the waters of the United States." The EPA approved the state's assumption of this authority in 1994, after considerable negotiation.