New Jersey § 13:1e-5

§ 13:1e-5.

In addition to all other standards, conditions and procedures required pursuant to

law for the approval of applications for registration statements and engineering designs

for new solid waste disposal facilities: a. The department shall transmit, by certified mail, a complete copy of any application

for a registration statement or engineering design approval for a new solid waste

disposal facility to the governing body of the affected municipality; b. Within 6 months of the receipt of a complete application, the department shall

reject the application or grant tentative approval thereof, which tentative approval

shall establish design and operating conditions for the proposed solid waste disposal

facility, requirements for the monitoring thereof, and any other conditions required

under federal or State laws or rules and regulations; c. All tentative approvals of applications granted pursuant to subsection b. of this

section shall be transmitted to the applicant and to the affected municipality and

shall be accompanied by a fact sheet setting forth the principal facts and the significant

factual, legal, methodological, and policy questions considered in granting the tentative

approval. The fact sheet shall include a description of the facility which is the subject

of the tentative approval, the type and quantities of solid waste or sludge which

may be disposed of at the proposed facility, and a brief summary of the basis for

the conditions of the tentative approval; and d. Within 45 days of the granting of a tentative approval of an application, a public

hearing on the proposed facility and operator shall be conducted by the department. The department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to ensure

that the public hearing is full and impartial and that the applicant is present to

answer questions relating to the facility which are posed by interested parties.