New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7 - COASTAL PERMIT PROGRAM RULES
Subchapter 15 - USE RULES
Section 7:7-15.6 - Public facility
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) Public facilities include a broad range of public works for production, transfer, transmission, and recovery of water, sewerage and other utilities. The presence of an adequate infrastructure makes possible future development and responds to the needs created by present development.
(b) Solid waste facility means any system, site, equipment, or building which is utilized for the storage, collection, processing, transfer, transportation, separation, recycling, recovering, or disposal of solid waste, but shall not include a recycling center, a regulated medical waste collection facility authorized pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:26-3A.39, or an intermodal container facility authorized pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:26-3.6.
(c) Wastewater treatment facilities are conditionally acceptable provided:
(d) New or expanded public facilities other than those listed at (b) and (c) above are conditionally acceptable provided:
(e) Rationale: The development of public facilities responds to the needs created by existing development and may make possible future development. Public facilities should serve a current need and should not have secondary impacts, such as increasing sprawl.
Alternatives to developing new public facilities must be considered. For example, solid waste is a resource whose potential for recovery must be evaluated before locating new sanitary landfills. Recovery/recycling are preferred over utilizing precious coastal land area for a landfill. Further regional solutions to solid waste management are mandated under State law. In addition, the development of new landfills is subject to the regulation of the Department's Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste.
Wastewater treatment systems range in scale from on-site sewage disposal systems to regional treatment systems with centralized plants, major interceptors, and ocean outfalls. In the past decades, considerable wastewater treatment facility construction has taken place or been authorized in developing parts of the coastal zone with corresponding improvements to water quality. New wastewater treatment systems must be carefully evaluated in terms of water quality impacts and secondary impacts.
The Federal Clean Water Act encourages Federally funded wastewater treatment facilities to provide for multiple use of the site. The Coastal Zone Management rules support and extend this Federal policy by requiring that all new wastewater treatment facilities in the coastal zone consider the feasibility of multiple use.