The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee will meet remotely at 3: 15 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 2021
The following bills will be considered:
A-2294
Kennedy/Vainieri Huttle
Prohibits the use of receipt paper containing bisphenol A.
A-5663
Moen/Pintor Marin/ Wimberly
Increases penalties for unauthorized transportation or disposal of solid waste.
A-5803
McKeon
This bill would exempt plastic material transported and delivered to, and processed at, an advanced plastic processing facility from State laws regulating the disposal or recycling of solid waste. However, the bill would provide that advanced plastic processing facilities are subject to all other State and federal laws, including environmental laws. The bill would also provide that the terms “advanced plastic processing” and “advanced plastic processing facility” are distinct from various other terms related to solid waste, as described in section 2 of the bill. The bill would also amend the definition of “solid waste” in the “Solid Waste Management Act” (SWMA) ), to exclude source-separated plastic material that is transported and delivered to, and processed at, an advanced plastic processing facility. The bill would thus exclude this type of plastic from the substantive provisions of the SWMA, which, among other things, gives the Department of Environmental Protect the authority to regulate the solid waste collection, transportation, and disposal. The bill would define an “advanced plastic processing facility” as a facility that receives, stores, and processes plastic material generated from industrial, commercial, agricultural, or domestic activities, transforming it into useable products, including but not limited to plastic monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, or home heating oil, using 35 chemical processes such as gasification, pyrolysis, and solvolysis
A-5822
Karabinchak/Stanley/Coughlin
Renames Dismal Swamp and Dismal Swamp Preservation Commission as “Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preserve” and “Peter J. Barnes III Wildlife Preservation Commission.”
A-5841
Zwicker
Revises certain funding provisions for financial assistance and grants from Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. This bill is intended to alleviate the current backlog of 48 applications to the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund. The current limits were set in 2017.
AJR-230
McKeon/Vainieri Huttle
Designates May of each year as “Bag Up NJ Mon
Due to the public health emergency, the State House Annex remains closed to visitors. The public may not attend the Committee meeting in person but may view and participate in the meeting via the New Jersey Legislature home page at https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/.
The Committee will take oral testimony on bills, by telephone and video. If you are interested in registering your position with the Committee, please fill out the Registration Form located on the New Jersey Legislature Home Page under the applicable Committee heading.
For those individuals who wish to testify, please check the box “Do you wish to testify?” on the Registration Form. Instructions for testifying before the Committee will be forwarded to you after you submit your Registration Form. The form must be submitted by 3:00 PM on June 11, 2021.
The public may also submit written testimony electronically in lieu of oral testimony. Written testimony will be included in the Committee record and distributed to all the Committee members. Written testimony should be submitted to OLSAideAEN@njleg.org.
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