New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 1E - DISCHARGES OF PETROLEUM AND OTHER HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Subchapter 4 - PLANS
Section 7:1E-4.10 - Mapping criteria

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:1E-4.10

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

(a) General site plans, required pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.2(b)7, shall:

1. Accurately reflect the current facility, including the property boundary, delineating and identifying, by labeling or other means, storage tanks, small container storage areas, process buildings, loading or unloading areas, marine transfer areas, any other structures, and all facility fencing and gates;

2. Be drawn to a scale in the range of one inch equals 30 to one inch equals 200 feet, such that it is sufficient to delineate all items to be mapped and is appropriate for the size of the facility. If labels or other items on the general site plan are illegible, the scale should be changed or inserts should be used; and

3. Be certified by a licensed land surveyor in accordance with N.J.S.A. 45:8-27, et seq., and N.J.A.C. 13:40.

(b) Drainage and land use maps, required pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.2(b)8, shall include the land area within 1,000 feet of the facility's boundary and shall:

1. Employ current basemaps at a scale equal to or larger than one inch equals 600 feet, and appropriate for the size of the facility;

2. Show the facility boundary;

3. Delineate and label the following categories of land use:
i. Residential;

ii. Educational institutions;

iii. Health institutions;

iv. Commercial and services;

v. Industrial;

vi. Transportation, communication and utilities;

vii. Industrial and commercial complexes;

viii. Other urban lands not specified in (b)3i through vii above;

ix. Recreational land and parks;

x. Streams and canals;

xi. Lakes and reservoirs;

xii. Bays, estuaries and other tidal waters;

xiii. Coastal wetlands;

xiv. Interior wetlands;

xv. Agricultural land;

xvi. Beaches;

xvii. Extractive mining;

xviii. Other barren or altered lands;

xix. Deciduous forest;

xx. Coniferous forest;

xxi. Mixed forest; and

xxii. Brushland and shrubland; and

4. Locate and label all arterial and collector sewers, storm sewers, catchment or containment systems or basins, diversion systems, and watercourses into which surface water run-off from the facility drains.

(c) General site plans and drainage and land use maps, in addition to (a) and (b) above, and transmission pipeline maps required pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-3.2(a)8 shall meet:

1. The standards contained in N.J.A.C. 7:1D, Appendix A; or

2. All of the following:
i. Be prepared in a digital environment that is compatible with the Department's Geographic Information System. Compatible digital formats include AutoCAD, Arc View, and Arc GIS;

ii. Be projected in New Jersey State Plane feet (North American Datum 1983); and

iii. Contain a legend block stating the name and affiliation of the preparer of the map, the name and location of the facility, the scale or scales employed, the sources of the data used, and the date of preparation of the map.

(d) Topographical maps showing environmentally sensitive areas, required pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.2(b)9, shall:

1. Employ current basemaps at a scale equal to or larger than one inch equals 1,000 feet;

2. Clearly show the location of the facility;

3. Not be so crowded as to obscure the clarity of the mapped information;

4. Accurately transfer mapped data from other sources to the basemaps;

5. Contain a legend block stating the name and affiliation of the preparer of the map, the name of the facility, the scale or scales employed, the sources of the data used, and the date of preparation;

6. Cover that area in which the major facility is located which is downgradient or topographically lower than the highest land point within the major facility and which could be affected by a discharge as delineated in (d)7 below;

7. Extend to the maximum area of potential impact, taking into account the sizes of the tanks, containers, or vessel compartments utilized by the facility, the loss of secondary containment, consideration of containment measures in addition to secondary containment, the dispersiveness of the hazardous substance, temperature extremes, average rainfall and stream flows, tidal cycles, prevailing winds, and potential threat to the environment. This area shall be the lesser of the following:
i. The distance and path an uncontrolled discharge would travel in 48 hours, including all floodprone areas around any surface water or wetlands features;

ii. The distance downstream from the facility at which the concentration of the hazardous substance would fall below EPA's Quality Criteria for Water issued by EPA's Office of Water Regulations and Standards, including all floodprone areas around any surface water or wetlands features; or

iii. Fifteen miles from the facility boundary, downgradient along the path a discharge would follow, including all floodprone areas around any surface water or wetland features; and

8. Delineate and label the environmentally sensitive areas identified in N.J.A.C. 7:1E-1.8;

(e) All maps required by N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.2(b)7 and 8 shall be submitted in digital and paper copy form. The digital and one paper copy shall accompany the initial plan submission for approval.

(f) All maps required by N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.2(b)9 shall be submitted in paper form. One paper copy shall accompany the initial plan submission for approval.

(g) An owner or operator may apply for an exemption, valid until the plan must be renewed, from compliance with the mapping criteria set forth above.

1. The application shall be in writing and shall contain the following:
i. A copy of a written estimate of the cost of preparing the required maps in accordance with the criteria set forth in this section; and

ii. An affidavit, signed and sworn to by the person required to provide certifications pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:1E-4.11(c), stating that the owner or operator is a small business and that incurring the cost of obtaining maps in compliance with this section would substantially impair the owner or operator's ability to continue as a going concern.

2. The owner or operator shall submit such certified financial statements as the Department requests.

3. The Department shall grant the exemption if it determines that the cost of obtaining maps in compliance with this section would be equal to or greater than 25 percent of the owner or operator's gross proceeds or retained earnings, as demonstrated by the financial statements submitted pursuant to (g)2 above.

4. The grant of the exemption shall set forth other mapping criteria for general site plans and may set forth other mapping criteria for drainage and land use maps, which the Department determines will satisfactorily serve the purposes of this subchapter. One such set of criteria for general site plans includes the scanning of the existing general site plan to produce a digital image for submission to the Department along with the facility's coordinate centroid in New Jersey State Plane feet (North American Datum 1983).

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