Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 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 13:1D-50.
(b) The appointment and membership of the Board shall be as provided at 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 13:1D-50.
