N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-22.1 - General policy and purpose

(a) It is the purpose of this subchapter to:

1. Establish when a treatment works approval permit is required from the Department;

2. Establish the administrative requirements for treatment works approval applications;

3. Establish the criteria for the imposition of sewer connection bans;

4. Restrict the approval of additional sewer connections, by means of a sewer connection ban, in circumstances when untreated or partially treated wastewater is being discharged in substantial non-compliance with a NPDES or NJPDES permit, or circumstances when inadequate conveyance capacity exists in a collection/conveyance system;

5. Establish criteria for exemptions from sewer connection bans;

6. Establish a mechanism for actions by local and regional sewerage authorities to provide for adequate sewage conveyance and treatment facilities within their sewer service areas, and to ensure that sewage generating facilities are located within the appropriate sewer service area as determined by the applicable water quality management plans; and

7. Establish procedures for timely decisions by the Department on treatment works approvals pursuant to 13:1D-29 et seq.

(b) The performance of sewerage facilities, which are generally owned and operated by local and regional sewerage authorities, is dependent, in part, on how they are managed as well as upon controls exercised over the issuance of local approvals and additional sewage connection permits. Adequate monitoring and prudent management of such facilities is essential in order to prevent violations of their NJPDES permits or overflows of conveyance systems. It is the responsibility of the sewerage authority and/or treatment plant owner/operator to implement timely corrective actions and to ensure that additional connections to the treatment works do not result in such occurrences. Whenever the participating municipalities and sewerage authorities fail in this responsibility, the Department may take whatever action that it deems necessary to assure compliance, including, but not limited to, ceasing the issuance of treatment works approval permits and/or the imposition of a sewer connection ban.

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N.J. Admin. Code § 7:14A-22.1

Amended by R.2009 d.7, effective 1/5/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1478(a), 41 N.J.R. 142(a).
In (a)5, deleted "and" from the end; in (a)6, substituted "; and" for a period at the end; and added (a)7.