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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP criticized by EPA, reduces oversight


BY COREY KLEIN
South Bergenite (NJ)
September 3, 2009

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has a new 
way for signing off on cleanups, and some say it's equivalent to letting 
the foxes guard the hen house. As of Sept. 2, LSRPs (Licensed Site 
Remediation Professionals), consultants hired by companies responsible 
for the cleanups, now have the authority to sign off on environmental 
cleanups across the state of New Jersey.

There are at least five of these kinds of cleanups currently taking 
place in southern Bergen County: at the former Howmedica facility on 
Veterans Boulevard in Rutherford, the Arsynco property on 13th Street in 
Carlstadt, a former Exxon gas station on Paterson Avenue in East 
Rutherford, a former Mobil gas station on Rutherford Avenue in Lyndhurst 
and a currently operating Exxon Station on Riverside Avenue in Lyndhurst.

Driving around town or flipping through the local newspaper, one might 
notice advertisements for environmental cleanups. The DEP required 
companies to advertise their cleanup efforts as of Sept. 2. The new 
regulations for advertising cleanups came in tandem with the relaxed 
rules that allow companies to hire their own professionals to conduct 
cleanups with less oversight by the DEP.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/environmental_protection/Private_companies_to_handle_cleanups.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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