New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 15 - WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANNING › Subchapter 5 - 303(D) WATER QUALITY LIMITED WATERS LISTS AND TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS › Section 7:15-5.23 - Schedule for submission of wastewater management plans

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Each wastewater
				management planning agency shall prepare and submit a wastewater management
				plan update every six years from the date of last adoption unless an alternate
				schedule is established pursuant to (e) or (f) below as a request to revise the
				applicable areawide WQM plan under
				7:15-3.5. Where no wastewater
				management plan has ever been adopted or a wastewater management plan has been
				adopted prior to July 7, 2002, the wastewater management plan is not current
				and is not in compliance with this section.
(b) If a wastewater management plan in
				compliance with the schedule in (a) above is not in place on July 7, 2008, the
				WMP agency shall submit a WMP or WMP update by April 7, 2009. If a municipality
				accepts wastewater management plan responsibility through alternative
				assignment under
				7:15-5.13, the municipality shall
				submit a wastewater management plan by July 7, 2009 or in accordance with the
				schedule established in (e) below.
(c) If the wastewater management planning
				agency fails to comply with the schedule in (a) or (b) above or an alternative
				schedule established under (e) or (f) below, the general service areas for
				wastewater facilities with planning flows of less than 20,000 gallons per day
				which discharge to ground water, the general service area for wastewater
				facilities with planning flows of less than 2,000 gallons per day which
				discharge to ground water, and sewer service areas shall be withdrawn in
				accordance with
				7:15-8.1.
(d) Each municipal wastewater management plan
				chapter established through alternative assignment of WMP responsibility under
				7:15-5.13 and adopted in accordance
				with the schedule established at (e) or (f) below shall be current for a period
				of six years unless the WMP chapter becomes part of a county-wide WMP. Where a
				municipal WMP chapter is incorporated into a county-wide WMP, the municipal WMP
				chapter shall assume the same six-year WMP update schedule as the county-wide
				WMP in accordance with the schedule at (a) above.
(e) Each WQM plan revision that makes or
				changes alternative assignments of wastewater management plan responsibility
				under 7:15-5.13 shall include a schedule
				for submission of the corresponding wastewater management plan.
(f) Alternative schedules for submission of
				wastewater management plans, different from those set forth under (a) through
				(e) above, shall be established and subsequently changed only if such
				alternative schedules or changes thereto are adopted as revisions to WQM plans.
				Reasons that may justify the establishment or changing of alternative schedules
				include, but are not limited to:
1.
				Coordination of wastewater management plans with the preparation of municipal
				or county master plans under
				40:55D-28 or
				40:27-2, or with reexaminations
				under 40:55D-89;
2. Coordination between adjacent wastewater
				management plan areas;
3. The need
				for additional time to perform specific examinations required under
				7:15-5.18(a)2  or
				5.25(a) through (g);
4.
				Coordination of wastewater management plans with the schedules of the NJPDES
				programs or of financial assistance programs under N.J.A.C. 7:22; and
5. The need to stagger the submission of
				wastewater management plans so that the Department can better manage its
				corresponding workload under
				7:15-3.4.