[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey - "Doubts temper delight"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Doubts temper delight over DEP reform
Some developers fear site professional program will add costs

By Evelyn Lee
New Jersey Business
May 25, 2009

New Jersey's real estate developers are widely applauding the enactment 
of the Site Remediation Reform Act, which establishes a Licensed Site 
Remediation Professional Program to accelerate the cleanup process of 
polluted sites. But with the program still lacking specifics, insiders 
are concerned some provisions of the legislation could add more costs to 
the remediation process, discouraging brownfield redevelopment.

Under the new initiative, which Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law 
earlier this month, private-sector environmental engineers and 
consultants will be licensed and authorized to oversee and approve 
non-sensitive site cleanups - helping clear the agency's backlog of some 
20,000 contaminated sites. The state Department of Environmental 
Protection plans to begin issuing temporary licenses in the fall, and 
will continue to do so until an independent board is established and 
begins issuing permanent licenses.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.njbiz.com/print_article.asp?aID=78159

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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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