CSRR Stakeholder Process

The Department continues to implement an extensive stakeholder process to address general program issues, rules, and guidance. CSRR stakeholder efforts and committees include CVP/SRAG meetings, Remediation Process Improvement Initiative, Technical Guidance Committees, Remediation Standards, and Remedial Priority System.

Cooperative Venture Program and Site Remediation Advisory Group (CVP/SRAG)

David Haymes (DEP chair)

Committee Goal:
The joint Cooperative Venture Program (CVP) and Site Remediation Advisory Group (SRAG) meetings are a valuable opportunity for stakeholders to meet with Department personnel to discuss specific technical and administrative issues concerning their constituencies. These meetings are an interactive forum where agenda items are determined with stakeholder input, targeted information is presented, and problems and issues are discussed and resolved. The goal of the Site Remediation Program is to make the remedial process more transparent, predictable, and efficient. These meetings help to achieve this goal and to promote the Department’s Stakeholder process.

Remediation Process Improvement Initiative (RPII)

Committee Goal:
Remediation Process Improvement Initiative (RPII) is a collaborative effort between the Department, LSRPs, the regulated community, and other interested stakeholders to further improve and streamline remediations in the state.

Technical Guidance

Sana Qureshi (DEP chair)

Round 3 guidance committees and chairpersons:

  1. ARS – Ingestion-Dermal and Inhalation Exposure Pathways for Soil: Allan Motter, Erica Snyder
  2. ARS – Migration to Ground Water Pathway: Swati Toppin
  3. Extractable Petroleum Hydrocarbon: John Ruhl
  4. Field Sampling Procedures Manual: Biff Lowry, Crystal Pirozek
  5. Perimeter Air Monitoring: Allan Motter, Erica Snyder

A list of the Round 3 guidance committee members is available at:

Round 2 guidance committees and chairpersons:
(formed in September 2012)

  • Capping: Greg Neumann
  • Child Care Centers: Alphonse Inserra
  • Commingled Ground Water Plumes: Mary Anne Kuserk
  • Evaluation of Contaminated Ground Water Discharge to Surface Water: Bill Hanrahan
  • Historic Pesticide Use: Chris Dwyer and Lynne Mitchell
  • Off-Site Source Investigation/Documentation: Christina Page
  • Performance Monitoring of In-situ Ground Water Remedial Actions: Joel Fradel and Maria VandeZilver
  • Planning for and Response to Catastrophic Events at Contaminated Sites:

A complete list of the guidance team members may be found at:

Round 1 guidance committees and chairpersons:
(formed in July 2010)

A list of completed Technical Guidance Documents, developed using the stakeholder process, is available at:

A complete list of the guidance team members may be found at:

Committee Goal:
To develop topic-specific technical guidances that work in concert with the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation (N.J.A.C. 7:26E) by providing recommendations, approaches and technical issues to be considered in the remediation of contaminated sites. These guidance documents are intended to be used by the LSRP and remediating party during the remediation process to provide a basic framework for making technical decisions and applying professional judgment. The Site Remediation Professional Licensing Board may also use the technical guidances to assist in evaluating whether professional judgment was applied appropriately during the remediation of a contaminated site.

Guidance document review process:
When a draft final guidance document is considered completed by a technical guidance committee, all committee members should review the document and support releasing the document for review outside of the committee. The document will be distributed to stakeholders that are members of the other technical guidance committees for review and comment. Those stakeholders receiving the document will also be requested to assume responsibility for coordinating reviews within their respective constituencies and directing comments back to the committee chairperson. The draft guidance document will also be distributed for review and comment within the program to the Assistant Commissioner’s office, Directors, Assistant Directors, Bureau Chiefs, and any interested staff. The review period for draft guidance documents will be six weeks. Following the close of the comment period, the Technical Guidance Committee responsible for the document will review all comments and revise the document, if necessary, in response to comments received. Significant technical comments will be addressed in writing by the committee and posted on the DEP’s Web page as a “Response to Comments” document. After final revision, the technical guidance committee will release the document as a “Final Technical Guidance” document, it will be posted on the CSRR Guidance Library and a SRRA Listserv message will be issued.

Administrative Requirements for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites (ARRCS) and Technical Requirements for Site Remediation Rule Revisions

Lynne Mitchell (Rule Manager)

Committee Goal:
The goal of this committee is to revise the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation and the Administrative Requirements for the Remediation of Contaminated Sites to reflect the changes to the Site Remediation Reform Act. The committee consists of Department staff. External stakeholders that have been invited to engage the Department in discussions on the rule revisions include: the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), the Licensed Site Remediation Professional Association (LSRPA), the New Jersey Business and Industry Association (NJBIA), the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (NAIOP), the Site Remediation Industry Network (SRIN), Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast (BCONE), Utility and Transportation Contractors Association of NJ (UTCANJ), Chemical Council of NJ (CCNJ), New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA), Chamber of Commerce of NJ, Chamber of Commerce of Southern NJ, environmental justice advocates, county planners, municipalities, and other associations.

Meetings

SRRA 2.0 Stakeholder Meeting
June 14, 2023 – 02:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards (N.J.A.C. 7:26D)

Allan Motter (Rule Manager)

Committee Goal:
The goal of this committee is to gather input from potentially affected parties regarding the amendments to the Remediation Standards, to further improve this rule. The committee consists of Department staff and external stakeholders. Invitations were sent to the Site Remediation Industry Network; the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey; the New Jersey Business and Industry Association; the Licensed Site Remediation Professional Association; the New Jersey Builders Association; the New Jersey Fuel Merchants Association; the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists; 37 municipalities; 22 County Planners or Officials; and 18 Environmental and Environmental Justice Organizations.

Meetings

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
July 12, 2023 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
December 18, 2018 – 02:00:00 pm

Following the last External Stakeholder Meeting on June 10, 2015 the following documents were emailed to all the external stakeholders as meeting records. They are sections of the draft proposal that reflect input from the external stakeholders.

The following documents represent the finalized proposal text that resulted from the Department evaluating the input of the external stakeholders and making a determination on how to proceed. These were similarly emailed to the external stakeholders.

The remaining documents are the numerical tables of standards and were emailed to indicate what the final version would be:

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
June 10, 2015 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
May 12, 2015 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
April 15, 2015 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
March 10, 2015 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
February 10, 2015 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
November 12, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
October 14, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
September 16, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
August 12, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
June 10, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
May 13, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
April 15, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remediation Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:26D-Stakeholder Meeting-Invitation Only
March 11, 2014 – 01:00:00 pm

Remedial Priority System

Sana Qureshi (DEP chair)

Committee Goal:
To develop a Remedial Priority System (RPS) system to measure each contaminated site’s relative risk to human and ecological health. The system will be based on the Department’s existing electronic data and will be enhanced as new data, improved logic and additional capabilities become available. SRWMP formed a stakeholder committee to review current methodologies, identify potential improvements, and to discuss future developments of the system. Subcommittees formed to discuss model engineering include Geographic Information Systems, Hazsite Data, Additional Data Resources, and Policy. The Remedial Priority System Technical Stakeholder Committee Report [pdf] was finalized on September 12, 2011.

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