[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey's Licensed Professionals

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Watchdogs warily eye rollout of new N.J. waste site cleanup scheme

By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD
Greenwire/New York Times
May 26, 2009

LYNDHURST, N.J. -- New Jersey is rolling out an ambitious and highly 
controversial scheme to clean up industrial waste sites, modeled on a 
Massachusetts program that critics say has a mixed record.

The state Department of Environmental Protection is aiming over the next 
three years to systematically free itself from direct responsibility for 
cleaning up more than 10,000 polluted brownfields and several Superfund 
sites. DEP plans to hand over remediation planning and monitoring to 
contractors hired by owners of contaminated properties.

In anticipation of the shift, brownfield rehabilitation and engineering 
professionals launched the Licensed Site Remediation Professionals 
Association, a trade group whose members will carry out the plan that 
Gov. Jon Corzine (D) signed into law May 7, referred to by most as the 
LSRP initiative.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/26/26greenwire-watchdogs-warily-eye-rollout-of-new-nj-waste-s-39851.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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