New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 14A - NEW JERSEY POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM
Subchapter 16 - TRANSFER, MODIFICATION, REVOCATION AND REISSUANCE, RENEWAL, SUSPENSION, AND REVOCATION OF EXISTING PERMITS
Section 7:14A-16.2 - Transfer of a permit
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:14A-16.2
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024
(a) A permittee shall not transfer a NJPDES permit to any person except after due notice to the Department in accordance with (b) or (d) below.
(b) To identify a new owner or operator, a permit may be transferred:
1. As a major
modification or revocation and reissuance if one or more causes at
N.J.A.C.
7:14A-16.4 are identified;
2. As a minor modification with changes
identified at
N.J.A.C.
7:14A-16.5; or
3. As an automatic transfer under (d)
below.
(c) (Reserved)
(d) Any permit shall be automatically transferred to a new permittee if:
1. The current permittee provides written
notice to the Department by certified mail or by other means which provides
verification of the date of delivery to the Department of the proposed transfer
at least 30 days prior to the proposed transfer date. This notice shall include
the following:
i. The name of the current
owner and the address of facility;
ii. The name and address of the new owner or
owners and operator;
iii. The
permit number;
iv. The names of the
principal officer or officers responsible for the facility operation and
maintenance under the new operator identified under (d)1ii above;
v. The names and current telephone numbers of
persons upon whom legal process can be served;
vi. A notarized statement signed by the new
principal officer identified in (d)1iv above stating that he or she has read
the permit and certifies, pursuant to
N.J.A.C.
7:14A-4.9, that he or she shall abide by all
the conditions of the permit and that production levels, products generated,
rates of discharge, and discharge characteristics shall remain unchanged;
and
vii. A written agreement
between the current permittee and new permittee which includes a specific date
for transfer of permit responsibility between the current permittee and new
permittee; and
2. The
Department does not issue a response letter in accordance with
N.J.A.C.
7:14A-16.3(c) to notify the
current permittee and the new permittee, within 30 days of receipt of notice of
the proposed transfer provided the permittee complies with the requirements in
(d)1 above. The Department shall incorporate the name of the new permittee into
the permit as a minor modification in accordance with
N.J.A.C.
7:14A-16.5.
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