Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024
(a) The
Pollution Prevention Advisory Board shall advise the Department in matters
related to the administration of the Act and shall monitor the expenditure of
money in the Pollution Prevention Fund established by
N.J.S.A. 13:1D-50.
(b) The appointment and membership of the
Board shall be as provided at
N.J.S.A. 13:1D-39. A majority of the membership of the
Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of board business. Action
may be taken and motions adopted by the Board at any meeting thereof by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Board present and voting.
Members of the Board shall serve without compensation but the Board may, within
the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for such
purposes, reimburse its members for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred
in the discharge of their official duties.
(c) The Board may:
1. Review any matters submitted to it by the
Department concerning any aspect of the provisions or implementation of the Act
and report its recommendations to the Department;
2. Conduct an ongoing review of the
implementation of the Act and submit any recommendations for administrative or
legislative changes it deems necessary to the Department;
3. Investigate techniques to develop
standardized classifications of production processes employed by industrial
facilities, and investigate the feasibility of utilizing such techniques in the
development and implementation of Pollution Prevention Plans;
4. Advise the Department on the
interpretation of information submitted in Pollution Prevention Plan Summaries
and Pollution Prevention Plan Progress Reports and on the content of Pollution
Prevention Plans, Plan Summaries, and Plan Progress Reports;
5. Review the scientific literature
concerning the occupational, public health, and environmental risks presented
by exposures to specific hazardous substances, evaluate scientific
interpretations of these risks, and assess the risks of the discharge of these
hazardous substances into different environmental media;
6. Review and evaluate the impact of
reductions in the use or discharge of specific hazardous substances on
employment levels;
7. Conduct
periodic reviews of the criteria adopted by the Department for the preparation
of Pollution Prevention Plans, Plan Summaries, and Plan Progress Reports and,
if deemed necessary, make recommendations to the Department for administrative
changes;
8. Study and evaluate the
practicability and feasibility of achieving hazardous substance pollution
prevention without reductions in employment levels through the use of
substitute substances, alternative procedures or processes, or other
means;
9. Conduct research, or hold
public hearings concerning the continued use, production, manufacture,
discharge, or disposal of any hazardous substance in the State and the threat
that this use, production, manufacture, discharge, or disposal poses to human
health or the environment, and, if warranted, make a written recommendation to
the Governor and the Legislature concerning the prohibition of, or restrictions
on, the continued use, production, manufacture, discharge, or disposal of the
hazardous substance in the State, except that the Board shall not conduct
research or hold public hearings concerning the siting of hazardous waste
facilities; and
10. Review the
expenditure by the Department of monies deposited in the Pollution Prevention
Fund established pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 13:1D-50.
