By Ellen Radow Sadat, Esq.  &  Joseph Schmidt, Esq. 

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (”DEP”) is taking another weapon out of its abundant arsenal, which may make it harder to implement reasonable remedial actions and delay cleanups.  Under draft guidance, titled “Requirements for Remedial Actions Rendering Properties Unusable,” issued on October 5, 2009, DEP plans to implement a seemingly innocuous provision of the Site Remediation Reform Act (“SRRA”): » Read the rest of this entry «

By Joseph Schmidt, Esq. 

If you are working on a remediation project that started prior to September 2, 2008, at a contaminated site in New Jersey, you have only a few weeks left to provide the public with notice of your site remediation activities.  The deadline for compliance is September 2, 2009.  The recent amendments to the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation (Tech Rule Amendments for Public Notice) require those responsible for performing remediation of contaminated sites in New Jersey to: » Read the rest of this entry «