New Jersey § 58:10-23

§ 58:10-23.

The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The recognition of the threat of serious, and in some cases irreversible, environmental

pollution by toxic chemicals stored, legally or otherwise, at various sites around

the State has prompted the recent need for a systematic and consistent approach to

the detoxification of those sites; b. Pioneering efforts in responding to those environmental threats have been undertaken

by agencies of this State thereby adding to the store of knowledge and experience

necessary for prompt and efficient hazardous discharge response; c. Serious allegations have been made that efforts to detoxify sites of hazardous

discharge have been fraught with ineffective administration, resulting in less than

the most cost effective approach to the cleanup of those sites, and the waste of funds

made precious by scarcity and the large number of sites needing remedial action; d. To assure the adequate and most cost effective response to chemical contamination,

it is altogether fitting and proper to utilize the expertise of industry, academia

and environmentally concerned citizens to study prior cleanup efforts, identify programmatic

inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, and to recommend a contingency response plan which

shall serve as the basis for a Statewide master plan for the cleanup of chemical contamination.