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By Frank Brill, EnviroPolitics Editor

Separate New Jersey Senate and Assembly bills requiring the licensing of persons involved in the sale and transport of soils for fill were merged yesterday and are now in place for final passage in both houses.

A-4267 (McKeon) and S1683 (Smith) would expand the requirements for background checks and so-called ‘901’ solid waste licensing to companies and persons involved in the “collection, transportation, processing, brokering, storage, purchase, sale, or disposition of soil and fill recyclable material.”

The legislation comes in response to a 2011 report by the State Committee of Investigations that found organized crime members posing as legitimate recyclers but supplying construction projects with contaminated soils.  

The legislation referred to during the legislative process as the ‘dirty dirt’ bill, is now in place for an Assembly floor vote.

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