New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7 - COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT RULES
Subchapter 4 - PERMITS-BY-RULE
Section 7:7-4.12 - Permit-by-rule 12 - construction of one to three wind turbines less than 200 feet in height having a cumulative rotor swept area no greater than 2,000 square feet

1. No portion of the wind turbine(s), including blades, tower and site disturbance, shall be located in, on or over dunes, beaches, wetlands, coastal bluffs, or wild and scenic river corridors;

2. No wind turbine tower(s) or site disturbance shall be located in floodways;

3. The wind turbine(s), including blades, tower and site disturbance, is set back a minimum of 50 feet, as measured parallel to the ground:

4. No portion of the wind turbine, including blades, tower, and site disturbance, shall be located within an area mapped as threatened or endangered species habitat on the Department's Landscape Maps of Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and Other Priority Wildlife (Landscape Maps) except as provided at (a)4i and ii below. The Landscape Maps are available from the Department's Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program at http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/ensp/landscape/index.htm;

5. If the wind turbine(s) is more than 120 feet tall, measured from the ground surface to the tip of the blade at its highest position, the tower shall be a freestanding monopole(s); and

6. No lighting shall be placed on or directed at the wind turbine except for lighting required by the Federal Aviation Administration. Shielded ground level security lighting may be used. Lighting is shielded when it is covered in a way that light rays are not emitted above the horizontal plane of the light.