New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 1C - ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Subchapter 2 - APPLICABILITY AND PROCEDURES
Section 7:1C-2.3 - Initial screening information
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Upon request, the Department shall provide to the applicant the initial screening information provided in this section and a statement of applicability.
(b) Environmental and Public Health Stressors/Geographic Point of Comparison: The Department shall provide a listing of the existing environmental and public health stressors in the overburdened community as set forth at the chapter Appendix and indicate the appropriate geographic point of comparison for each stressor by selecting the lower of the 50th percentile of the State or county's equivalent stressor, excluding other overburdened communities from the comparison.
(c) Adverse Environmental and Public Health Stressors: The Department shall indicate which environmental and public health stressors are considered adverse by comparing the value of each stressor in the overburdened community with the appropriate geographic point of comparison.
(d) Combined Stressor Total: The Department shall sum the number of adverse environmental and public health stressors in the overburdened community to determine the combined stressor total. The Department shall also indicate the appropriate geographic point of comparison for the combined stressor total by selecting the lower of the 50th percentile of the State or county's combined stressor totals excluding the combined stressor totals of other overburdened communities from the comparison.
(e) Cumulative stressors: The Department shall determine whether the overburdened community is subject to stressors by comparing the combined stressor total to the appropriate geographic point of comparison. If the facility is located, or proposed to be located, in whole or in part, in more than one overburdened community, the Department will apply the higher combined stressor total of the overburdened communities for the purposes of this analysis.
(f) The Department shall provide the screening information at (b) through (e) above to the applicant, in writing, for incorporation into the EJIS.
(g) An applicant that wishes to submit its EJIS concurrent with a permit application may obtain the screening information at (a) through (f) above from the Department's Environmental Justice Mapping, Assessment and Protection Tool (http://njdep.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=34e507ead25b4aa5a5051dbb85e55055).
