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NJ Puts on Pressure to Clean Up Sites Through Licensed Site Remediation Professionals

New Jersey puts pressure on responsible parties to hire a Licensed Site Remediation Professional to clean up contaminated sites by May 2012.

By David Umbach | Updated on August 30, 2011

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) created the Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) program in 2009 to help expedite the cleanup of contaminated sites.  The LSRP program was created by the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA), which was signed into law in May 2009.  The program gives LSRPs the ability to oversee the day to day management of remediation sites, rather than waiting for NJDEP approval to proceed. 

After over a year of growing pains in which far fewer remediation professionals applied to become licensed than was initially expected, the NJDEP is now putting on the pressure to speed up the remediation of 16,000 known contaminated sites.  Responsible parties (those who caused the contamination or owners of the property) of known polluted sites that are not under the direct oversight of the NJDEP must hire an LSRP to oversee the remediation by May 2012.  The NJDEP will require that all existing spill sites, even those that have been under continuous remediation prior to the 2009 enactment of SRRA, will be required to enroll in the LSRP program by May 2012.

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