Credit: kokliang1981/Adobe StockThe End of Innocence? DEP’s End Run Around ‘All Appropriate Inquiry’ Spill Act Protections
The LSRP Program is hailed as a tremendous success, facilitating faster and more remediations. However, a recent rule proposal by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, with the stated purpose of promoting remediation goals through early notification of contaminants found by persons conducting due diligence for land acquisition, is likely to have the opposite, unintended, effect.
February 06, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The responsibility to remediate contaminated property is a heavy burden. Liability under New Jersey’s extensive environmental laws is broad based and far reaching, and the process to achieve compliance is often complex, time-consuming, and costly.
The strength and scope of the state’s remediation program stems, in part, from the unfortunate legacy of contamination associated with the state’s industrial and manufacturing history. New Jersey has demonstrated leadership by implementing a robust and progressive remediation program, intended to facilitate timely and cost-effective remediation, most recently with the Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) Program under the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA), N.J.S.A. 58:10C-1 et seq.
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