New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 45 - RULES FOR THE REVIEW ZONE OF THE DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL STATE PARK › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION › Section 7:45-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Act" shall mean the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Law of 1974, 13:13A-1 et seq.
"Administrative Procedure Act" or "APA" means 52:14B-1 et seq., and the Uniform Administrative Procedure Rules, N.J.A.C. 1:1.
"Canal" means the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the abandoned section of the Canal in the Township of Hamilton, County of Mercer.
"Commission" means the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission.
"Compaction" means the increase in soil bulk density.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.
"Design engineer" means a person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.
"Disturbance" means construction or other human activity that disturbs the surface of the land, or the soil below the land surface, including, but not limited to, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavations, embankments, land development, agricultural plowing or tilling, timber harvesting activities, road maintenance activities, mineral extraction, and the moving, depositing, stockpiling, or storing of soil, rock or earth materials.
"Drainage area" means a geographic area within which stormwater runoff, sediments, or dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving waterbody or to a particular point along a receiving waterbody.
"Erosion" means the detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice or gravity.
"General permit" means an authorization to approve a project for which the terms and conditions are established in a rule promulgated under this chapter at N.J.A.C. 7:45-6, and for which a person must submit an application for authorization.
"Governmental project" means the undertaking of a public improvement, disturbance, development, construction or land-use change by a State department or agency, county, municipality or any other governmental entity except interior alterations to an existing structure that involves no change of use.
"Impervious surface" means a surface that has been covered with a layer of material so that the surface is highly resistant to infiltration by water. Examples of impervious surface include but are not limited to asphalt, concrete, graveled surfaces, metal, synthetic turf, buildings, sidewalks, driveways, tennis courts, swimming pools and most structures.
"Individual approval" means an approval issued by the Commission after application and review is made in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:45-2 through 4.
"Infiltration" is the process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.
"Major project" means a project that results in one or more of the following:
1. In Zone A and Zone B, the cumulative coverage since January 11, 1980, of one quarter acre of land with impervious surface;
2. In Zone A and Zone B, the disturbance of one acre or more of land;
3. In Zone A and Zone B, the disturbance of one half acre or more of existing impervious surface or significantly disturbed areas, for the purposes of construction, if the project site either:
i. Drains into the Canal; or
ii. Is located within a drainage area of a water course that discharges into the Canal from the point where the water course enters into the Canal up to the point at which the water course drains less than 50 acres, including drainage areas of any tributary to those water courses up to the point at which the tributary drains less than 50 acres; or