N.J. Admin. Code § 7:15-2.7

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 7:15-2.7 - Roles of county boards of chosen freeholders, sewerage authorities and municipal authorities, and municipalities

(a) A county board of chosen freeholders *or a county executive, where applicable,* shall have wastewater management planning responsibility for a WMP area consisting of its entire county unless alternative assignments of wastewater management planning responsibility are established under N.J.A.C. 7:15-2.8.

(b) The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners (PVSC), joint meetings, county utilities authorities, and every sewerage authority and every municipal authority that performs sewerage-related functions in at least part of its district shall have the responsibility to prepare and submit required elements of a WMP to the WMP agency. Upon the request of the WMP agency, the following sewerage-related information regarding its district or assigned sewer service area shall be provided:

1. The following information for any DTW owned or operated by the entity by facility name and NJPDES permit number:

i. Identification of any contractual obligations to provide sewer service to an area and any associated capacity allocation to municipalities, or industrial or commercial customers if not part of the municipal allocation, within the district and sewer service area of the DTW;

ii. The relationships of the municipalities within each sewer service area (for example, sewerage agency members versus contract customer communities);

iii. Maps, prepared in accordance with the requirements at N.J.A.C. 7:15-1.7 and 4.3, showing the name and NJPDES discharge permit number of each DTW; and

iv. Any other information needed to satisfy the requirements of N.J.A.C. 7:15-4.

(c) Where one or more sewerage agency has responsibility for an area within one or more WMP area(s), each sewerage agency shall provide all necessary sewerage-related information in accordance with (b) above to each WMP agency responsible for wastewater management planning within the sewerage agency's district or sewer service area.

(d) Upon the request of the WMP agency, every municipality shall provide the following information to the WMP agency:

1. The master plan, zoning, or local land use objective information identified at N.J.A.C. 7:15-4.4(h) including any relevant mapping; and

2. Where applicable, a septic management plan in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:15-4.5(c) 1vi. N.J.A.C. 7:15-2.8 Alternative assignment of wastewater management planning responsibility

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:15-2.7

Adopted by 48 N.J.R. 2244(a), effective 11/7/2016