New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 1E - DISCHARGES OF PETROLEUM AND OTHER HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 7:1E-1.11 - Applicability

(a) No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit a discharge of a hazardous substance.

(b) Major facilities, as defined in 7:1E-1.6, are required to meet the standards of this chapter. The Department shall grant the owner or operator of a major facility a reasonable period of time, in light of all circumstances including economic feasibility, to upgrade existing equipment and procedures to meet the standards of N.J.A.C. 7:1E-2, excluding the requirements of 7:1E-2.2(a)4 and 2.16, if the major facility proves to the satisfaction of the Department that such a time period is needed. The rate of such upgrading shall be proposed by the owner or operator as part of the DPCC and DCR plans submitted pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4. New equipment and procedures shall meet the standards of N.J.A.C. 7:1E-2 prior to being placed into service.

(c) A non-major facility which adds storage capacity so as to become a major facility shall be considered a major facility.

(d) The Department may require of any major facility which has been granted a period to upgrade, the installation of alternative prevention and/or detection devices such as alarms, so as to minimize the chances of a discharge, and may, in addition, require the owner or operator of such a major facility to demonstrate an enhanced ability to prevent, expeditiously contain and/or clean up and remove a discharge from the portion of the facility to which a time period to upgrade has been granted. If the Department requires the installation of alternative prevention and/or detection devices, the owner or operator shall propose the devices to be used, subject to the Department's approval.

(e) The Department recognizes that the designs of major facilities differ, and, therefore, appropriate methods of discharge prevention are necessarily site-specific. Wherever in these rules a particular method of discharge prevention is mandated, the owner or operator of a major facility may substitute an alternate method if he or she can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Department that such alternate method will provide protection against discharges at least equivalent to the method it is intended to replace.