N.J. Admin. Code § 7:15-5.13

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

Section 7:15-5.13 - Alternative assignment of wastewater management plan responsibility

(a) Alternative assignments of wastewater management plan responsibility, different from the assignment set forth in N.J.A.C. 7:15-5.4, shall be made and subsequently changed as revisions to WQM plans under N.J.A.C. 7:15-3.5.

(b) The Department may assign wastewater management plan responsibility to a municipality, if the municipality requests such responsibility and provided that the county WMP agency has not submitted or stipulates it does not intend to submit a WMP. As part of the application, municipalities requesting wastewater management plan responsibility must certify that the information it was required to submit at N.J.A.C. 7:15-5.8 was submitted to the county. Requests for municipal wastewater management plan responsibility shall be made by the municipality as part of an application for a revision to an areawide WQM plan or plans under N.J.A.C. 7:15-3.5. A municipality that becomes the wastewater management planning agency for itself through alternate assignment of wastewater management plan responsibility may submit a wastewater management plan directly to the Department.

(c) A municipality that becomes the wastewater management planning agency in accordance with (b) above shall have 90-days after the date of adoption of the revision assigning it wastewater management planning responsibility to submit its wastewater management plan.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:15-5.13