N.J. Admin. Code § 7:22-10.1

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

Section 7:22-10.1 - Scope and construction

(a) This subchapter constitutes the rules of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection regarding the environmental assessment requirements for projects receiving financial assistance pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:22-3, 4 and 6 and N.J.A.C. 7:22A-6 and 7.

(b) This subchapter shall be liberally construed to permit the Department to effectuate the purposes of the Bond Acts, the Trust Act, the Pinelands Infrastructure Trust Bond Act ( P.L. 1985, c.302), the Sewage Infrastructure Improvement Act and future bond acts and appropriations passed to provide financial assistance for environmental infrastructure facilities.

(c) This subchapter is promulgated for the following purposes:

1. To implement the purposes and objectives of the Bond Acts, the Trust Act, the Pinelands Infrastructure Trust Bond Act, the Sewage Infrastructure Improvement Act and future bond acts and appropriations passed to provide financial assistance for environmental infrastructure facilities;

2. To establish environmental assessment requirements which must be complied with in order to receive financial assistance provided pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:22-3, 4 and 6, and N.J.A.C. 7:22A-6 and 7;

3. To protect the public and the State of New Jersey by ensuring that funds appropriated are spent in a proper manner for the intended purposes while avoiding or minimizing adverse environmental impacts; and

4. To identify in a comprehensive manner the environmental objectives and constraints, planning and design requirements, and construction inspection procedures which must be observed in order to achieve the goal of avoiding or minimizing direct and indirect adverse environmental impacts.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:22-10.1

Amended by R.1992 d.42, effective 1/21/1992.
See: 23 New Jersey Register 3282(a), 24 New Jersey Register 246(a).
Revised to include references to the Sewage Infrastructure Improvement Act and the Stormwater Management and Combined Sewer Overflow Abatement Bond Act of 1989.
Amended by R.1993 d.409, effective 8/16/1993.
See: 25 New Jersey Register 1643(a), 25 New Jersey Register 3760(a).
Amended by R.1995 d.494, effective 9/5/1995.
See: 27 New Jersey Register 1536(a), 27 New Jersey Register 3403(a).
Amended by R.1998 d.407, effective 8/3/1998.
See: 30 New Jersey Register 1144(a), 30 New Jersey Register 2863(a).
Rewrote (b) and (c)1.