GREENHOUSE GAS MONITORING AND REPORTING RULE

Facilities with a refrigeration system and/or chillers with 50 pounds or more of a high-GWP refrigerant are required to register their facility, keep records of their refrigerant usage, and report that information to the DEP. You can register and report on the GHGMR Refrigeration page.

Any refrigerant with a global warming potential, more than 150 times or greater global warming potential of carbon dioxide. View the full list of applicable refrigerants .

A facility with two refrigeration systems that each have a full charge below 50 pounds does not have to register. The threshold applies to individual systems, not when adding multiple systems together.

Only, facilities with one or more refrigeration systems with a full charge greater than or equal to 50 pounds of a high-GWP refrigerant needs to register.

Air conditioning systems are considered exempt from this rule unless they use a chiller system. Chiller systems used for comfort cooling with a full charge of 50 pounds or more of high-GWP refrigerants are still applicable to the GHGMRR.

Chiller units with multiple circuits where each circuit contains less than 50 pounds of refrigerant at full charge does not need to register or report. You would only need to report if any individual refrigeration circuit has more than 50 pounds of high-GWP refrigerant at full charge.

A refrigeration system can have multiple refrigerant circuits. So, when we look at the definitions:

Refrigeration system means stationary, non-residential equipment that is an industrial process refrigeration, commercial refrigeration, or other refrigeration appliance, with a single refrigerant circuit that requires 50 pounds or more of any combination of high-GWP refrigerant to maintain normal operating characteristics and conditions. Refrigeration system does not include an air-conditioning appliance.

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Refrigerant circuit means the parts of a refrigeration system that are normally connected to each other (or are separated by isolation valves) and are designed to contain a high-GWP refrigerant. A single refrigerant circuit is defined by all piping and components that use refrigerant from a common reservoir of a high-GWP refrigerant.

After registering you will be given the option to pay via eCheck, pay via credit card or select “bill me” to have a bill sent to your address.

To pay by mail you must select “bill me” and wait for a paper invoice to arrive to you by mail. When you receive the invoice, the bottom portion must be mailed back along with the check for the registration fee.

Yes, you can still pay online by selecting “Pay a Paper Invoice” on the home page of NJDEP Online Here you will be able to locate your bill by entering the 9-digit invoice number at the top-right of your bill.

Read the step-by-step instructions for online bill payment.

Yes, you can pay your bill online by following these steps:

1. Log into the NJDEP Online account that you used to register your facility
2. Open the blue “Payments” tab at the top of the screen
3. Select “all bills” in the “Bill Type” drop-down menu, then click “search.”
4. Select the radio button next to the bill you wish to pay, then select “continue.” You will then be given the options to select the payment type of your choosing and pay your bill.

The GHGMRR registration costs $400 and is good for a period of five years. Your facility must also report on its refrigerant usage every year, but there is no fee for reporting.

The registration fee cannot be prorated or refunded. If you need to withdraw a registration, please download and fill out the Refrigeration Facility Registration Change Form .

To register a facility, you must create an account and register through NJDEP Online. For step-by-step instructions please view the Refrigeration Registration Instructions guidance document. To determine applicability of your refrigeration systems and for more information on the rule, please visit the GHGMR Refrigerants page.

Please use the following link to download the Refrigeration Facility Registration Change Form .

In the Reason for Registration Change Form, identify which facility you wish to eliminate from the registration by including the facility ID number (ex: Y1234) and stating the reason for withdrawing the registration.

Submit the Refrigeration Facility Registration Change Form to ghgmrr@njdepwptest.net.

Keep in mind, once the registration fee has been paid, the registration fee cannot be prorated or refunded.

If the Site Name and Site Location of one of the facilities in the “Partial Matches” table matches your facility’s information, please select that site by clicking on the adjoining radio button. Otherwise scroll to the bottom of the Site Selection screen and click on the “Create New Site” checkbox, then click the “Continue” button.

No, the registration does not need to be certified by a responsible official, but the annual refrigerant usage report does.

Make sure that you are using the correct municipality. For example, some facilities may have a mailing address of Princeton, but the actual municipality is West Windsor. To look up the municipality you may use the Municipal Boundaries of NJ mapping tool.

The Refrigeration Facility Registration system creates a Facility ID based on physical location. So, one TAX ID can have multiple refrigeration facilities registered, provided they are at different physical addresses.

If the facility needs to change or update information on the GHGMRR registration, the owner or operator of the facility must inform the Department and complete the Refrigeration Facility Registration Change Form .

Please update all facility information on the form and submit it to ghgmrr@njdepwptest.net.

If the two buildings are directly adjacent to each other, they can be registered as one facility, otherwise, they will need to be registered separately.

No, the facility must submit a Refrigeration Facility registration through NJDEPOnline.com, regardless of if they have registered the same facility for other services.  A specific facility ID will be generated for a facility once the facility submits a Refrigeration Facility Registration. This facility ID starts with “Y” followed by four digits.

Whoever is responsible for maintaining the equipment should register the facility and submit the Annual Refrigeration Facility Report.

You must complete an annual report at NJDEP Online. For step-by-step instructions, please view the Refrigeration Annual Reporting Instructions guidance document. The annual report is due April 1^st of every year. For example, the report for 2022 will be due on April 1^st, 2023.

For the 2022 reporting period, you must report usage from October 1^st– December 31^st. Subsequent reporting is conducted on a calendar year basis (January 1 – December 31)

The requirements to register refrigeration equipment under the rules of N.J.A.C. 7:27E are for the purposes of monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. This registration process is separate from the requirements of N.J.S.A. 34:7-1 et. seq. ENGINEER AND FIREMAN LICENSING; BOILERS, PRESSURE VESSELS AND REFRIGERATING PLANTS.

Refrigeration facilities that meet the threshold requirements for both regulations must register under both programs.

The intent of reporting “purchased” refrigerants under the GHGMRR is to identify new stock of refrigerant at the facility. It is important to identify refrigerant supplied by the vendor as refrigerant purchased even though you are indirectly buying refrigerant from the service vendor. This number is used in a mass balance equation to calculate the GHG emissions from each facility.

No, an annual refrigeration usage report must be certified by a responsible official at the facility, and cannot be certified by a consultant, even if that consultant had filled out the report.

It is highly recommended to voluntarily report the refrigerant usage for all systems regardless of size, if any one system at the facility is above the reporting threshold, especially if the systems use the same refrigerant. However, only systems having a full charge greater than or equal to 50 pounds of a high-GWP refrigerant need to be registered.

Low temperature refrigeration means a commercial or industrial refrigeration system used for frozen products.

Medium temperature refrigeration means a commercial or industrial refrigeration system used for chilled product.

Commercial Refrigeration means a refrigeration appliance used in the retail food and cold storage warehouse sectors.

Industrial Process Refrigeration means a complex customized appliances used in the chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries that are directly linked to the industrial process.

Individual with Direct Knowledge is the default “Access Type” assigned by NJDEP Online.

Below are the steps to make sure that the appropriate person will be able to certify as Responsible Official.

Note: The role of Responsible Official cannot be assigned by one person to another. Responsible Official access is self-assigned.

1. To obtain the “Access Type” of Responsible Official, that person must create a NJDEPonline.com account.
2. Make sure the Responsible Official has the correct facility ID number (Y####).
3. Then add the appropriate facility to their account by following the instructions in steps 1-5.
4. Then change their “Access Type” from Individual with Direct Knowledge to Responsible Official by following steps 6-8.
5. Once the Responsible Official has the facility setup on their end, you can send the notification for certification to that person.

The GHG Refrigerant Report does not count as the EPA GHG deliverable. Facilities required to submit refrigerant usage data or GHG data to the DEP or to the EPA must submit that data to each entity.

Yes, you should still submit a report. For any values that are “0” simply enter “0” into the report. It is possible that all values will be zero for a given refrigerant.

Yes, the equipment will be saved in subsequent years.

You can obtain the value of the full charge of a refrigeration system in one of the three following ways:

1. From characteristics and conditions of a refrigeration system​the equipment manufacturer’s specifications of the full charge​
2. Calculation based on component size, density of refrigerant, volume of piping, seasonal variances, and other relevant considerations​
3. From the midpoint of an established range for full charge based on the best available data regarding the normal operating characteristics and conditions for the system

In the NJDEPOnline.com “My Workspace” tab, select the blue “GHG Monitoring & Reporting Rule” link under “Service Selection.” You will then select the “Annual Refrigeration Facility Report,” and on the following page select “Revised.” Make sure to also select the correct year of the report you wish to change.

Please list the dual temperature system as low temperature since it is capable of below freezing temperatures. If the dual temperature rack is sharing the same refrigerant reservoir, it would be one system and should be listed as “Any Other” for Temperature Classification.

Yes, list the system in the annual report if the system was only shut down temporarily, and you plan to use the system in the future.

Put the date that you believe the equipment was installed and then label the equipment with that estimated installation date.

All these values are part of a mass balance equation. The amount that is recovered is pulled out of the refrigeration system. It can then be used to charge the system, stored, or shipped off site. In your case it was used to charge the system. An additional 10 lbs. were used to charge the system. If the 10 lbs. of charge were purchased during the reporting period, it should be reported as purchased. If at the end of the reporting period you have leftover refrigerant remaining on site, which is not in the refrigeration system, then that will be reported as “stored”.

Charged = 100 lbs.

Recovered = 90 lbs.

Purchased = 10 lbs

If a new “Initial” report is created, old attempts will be deleted. You can instead return to a report in progress by clicking the blue 6-dighit ID link under “My Services – in Progress,” in the “My Workspace Tab.”

If you made an electronic payment today (credit card or electronic check) then you will be able to start working on the annual report tomorrow. If you choose the Bill Me option, you will be able to start working on the annual report one day after the payment is received.

Purchased means the total weight in pounds of each type of high-GWP refrigerant that the facility purchased during the reporting period.

Charged means the total weight in pounds of each type of high-GWP refrigerant that was charged into a refrigeration system during the reporting period but was not part of an initial refrigerant charge.

Refrigerant already in the system at the start of the year should NOT be reported.

Recovered means the total weight in pounds of each type of high-GWP refrigerant that was removed in any condition from a refrigeration system and stored it in an external container without necessarily testing or processing it in any way during the reporting period.

Stored means the total weight in pounds of each type of high-GWP refrigerant that was stored in inventory at the facility or stored at a different location for use by the facility, on the last day of the reporting period.

Shipped Off-Site means total weight in pounds of high-GWP refrigerant that was shipped by the facility during the reporting period to be reclaimed or destroyed.

If one or more annual Facility Refrigeration System Reports needs to be withdrawn, without terminating the associated registration, the owner or operator must advise the DEP on the Facility Refrigeration System Report Withdrawal Form.

Please complete the form and submit it to ghgmrr@njdepwptest.net.