N.J. Admin. Code § 7:15-4.3 - Structure and content of wastewater management plans
(a) The
requirements for each WMP component are set forth below. WMPs should be
concise, using the minimum feasible narrative and mapping. All pages, tables,
and figures in WMPs shall be legible and numbered. Specific requirements for
these descriptions, maps, and analyses are set forth in 7:15-1.7 and this
subchapter. A WMP shall contain:
1. A title
page, identifying the name of the WMP, the WMP agency, and areawide WQM plan(s)
affected, the date submitted, and a blank line for the adoption date (for use
by the Department). Only the date of the most recent draft shall appear as the
date submitted;
2. A table of
contents identifying major text components, tables, figures, and maps, with
page and map number references;
3.
A brief summary of actions proposed in the WMP including a description of the
number of acres added and/or subtracted from the area eligible for sewer
service and strategies to address any potential capacity deficiencies
identified in the wastewater treatment capacity or nitrate dilution
analyses;
4. A narrative section
with a description of the following:
i. The
WMP area;
ii. Wastewater treatment
facilities tables required under (b) below and relationships between and among
municipalities and the wastewater treatment facilities;
iii. Descriptions of the information used to
perform the build-out, wastewater treatment capacity, and nitrate dilution
analyses required under 7:15-4.5
including, but limited to, the sources of the information, supporting, and
background documentation and other factors considered in preparing the
WMP;
iv. Results of the wastewater
treatment capacity and nitrate dilution analyses required pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 7:15-4.5; and
v. Strategies that demonstrate the potential
to address capacity deficiencies identified through the analyses; and
5. Maps as required under (c)
below.
(b) Wastewater
treatment facility tables shall be prepared for each existing and anticipated
wastewater treatment facility, and shall include the information listed below:
1. The name of the wastewater treatment
facility;
2. Identification of
whether the wastewater treatment facility is existing or is an anticipated
wastewater treatment facility;
3.
The name of the wastewater treatment facility owner and NJPDES
permittee;
4. The physical location
of the wastewater treatment facility including municipality, county, street
address and lot/block;
5. The
NJPDES permit number, if assigned. If the wastewater treatment facility has
been assigned a NJPDES permit number but the final permit has not been issued,
the word "pending" should follow the NJPDES permit number;
6. Identification of whether the wastewater
treatment facility discharges or will discharge to surface water, ground water,
or both;
7. The name of the
receiving surface water body or aquifer;
8. Identification of the classification of
the receiving surface water body or aquifer as specified in the Surface Water
Quality Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:9B, or the Ground Water Quality
Standards, N.J.A.C. 7:9C;
9. The discharge location (latitude and
longitude or State Plane Coordinates) or planned discharge location (if known)
for each existing NJPDES-regulated wastewater treatment facility and each
wastewater treatment facility for which an NJPDES permit application is
pending;
10. The flow identified in
the NJPDES permit in millions of gallons per day. The flow shall be identified
as to whether it is expressed as an annual average, maximum monthly average,
30-day average, daily maximum, or on some other basis. If the wastewater
treatment facility does not have a final NJPDES permit, space shall be provided
for insertion of the flow, once the permit is issued; and
11. Identification of the existing and
projected population and/or development and wastewater flow to be served by the
wastewater treatment facility during the planning period of 20-years for
urbanized municipalities or at build-out for all other
municipalities.
(c) Each
WMP shall include the following maps:
1. WMP
Area Map (Map No. 1). Where applicable, the following political and
jurisdictional, boundaries, and features shall be identified on this map:
i. The WMP area boundary;
ii. Areawide WQM planning area
boundaries;
iii. Municipal
boundaries;
iv. The coastal area
boundary, as described in 13:19-4, and
the Department's Coastal Zone Management rules at 7:7-1.2(b)
including the Hackensack Meadowlands District defined in 13:17-4;
v. The Pinelands Area and the Pinelands
National Reserve; and
vi. The
Highlands preservation area and the Highlands planning area.
2. Selected Environmentally
Sensitive Features Map (Map No. 2). A composite map depicting each of the
following environmental features in (c)2i through viii below based on the most
current GIS layers available from the Department at the time of WMP submission.
This map shall also state that "Development in areas mapped as environmentally
sensitive features may be subject to special restrictions under Federal or
State statutes or rules. Interested persons should check with the Department of
Environmental Protection for the latest information. Depiction of environmental
features shall be for general information purposes only, and shall not be
construed to define the legal geographic jurisdiction of such statutes or
rules."
i. Suitable habitat for endangered
and threatened species as identified on the Department's Landscape Maps of
Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and Other Priority Wildlife as Rank 3, 4 and
5;
ii. Natural Heritage Priority
Sites;
iii. Surface waters, as
mapped on the Department's graphic information systems (GIS) hydrography
coverage;
iv. Category One waters
designated in the Department's Surface Water Quality Standards,
N.J.A.C. 7:9B, based on the Department's maps of such waters,
and their corresponding 300-foot riparian zone based on the Flood Hazard Area
Control Act Rules, N.J.A.C. 7:13;
v. Coastal wetlands that have been mapped by
the Department under the Wetlands Act of 1970, 13:9A-1 et
seq.;
vi. Other freshwater and
estuarine wetlands, based on maps prepared by the Department under the
Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act,
13:9B-25.c;
vii. Coastal Fringe Planning Areas, Coastal
Rural Planning Areas, and Coastal Environmentally Sensitive Planning Area;
and
viii. Environmentally sensitive
areas in which 201 Facilities Plan grant limitations prohibit the extension of
sewer service, if available.
3. Wastewater Service Area Map (Map No. 3).
Where applicable, the following regional planning area boundaries,
wastewater-related jurisdictions, facilities, and wastewater service areas
shall be identified on this map:
i. The
Pinelands Management Area boundaries within the Pinelands Area and the
Pinelands National Reserve;
ii. The
land use capability zones established within the Highlands Regional Master Plan
adopted by the Highlands Council pursuant to 13:20-8;
iii. District boundaries of sewerage
authority districts, as defined in 40:14A-3(6),
districts of a municipal authority, as defined in 40:14B-3(5),
and municipal utility authority districts, as defined in 40:62-1 et seq. For the
purposes of this section, district shall also mean the Passaic Valley Sewerage
District defined under 58:14-1 et
seq.;
iv. Franchise areas for sewer
utilities regulated by the Board of Public Utilities and other contractual
boundaries defining sewer service area commitments or other legally binding
arrangements (for example, sewerage agency members or contract customer
communities);
v. The location of
each domestic and industrial wastewater treatment facility that is anticipated
to exist in the future, including existing facilities that will remain in
service, and the discharge outfall for each. The name and NJPDES permit
number(s), if assigned, of each wastewater treatment facility shall be
identified;
vi. A delineation of
sewer service areas, as determined in accordance with 7:15-4.4, differentiating
that area that is:
(1) Assigned sewer service
area, differentiating between area that currently conveys sewage to each
existing or proposed wastewater treatment facility and that which is proposed
to convey sewage to each existing or proposed wastewater treatment facility;
or
(2) Unassigned sewer service
area; and
vii. A
delineation of non-sewer service area.
4. Zoning map(s) (Map No. 4). Where
applicable, a map or maps depicting municipal parcel mapping, current composite
or municipal zoning as used as the basis for the build-out analysis required
pursuant to 7:15-4.5.
5. Other map(s) (Map 5). Where applicable,
map or maps depicting other factors considered in delineating sewer service
areas.
Notes
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