New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 15 - WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANNING › Subchapter 2 - PLANS, PLANNING ENTITIES, AND PLANNING RESPONSIBILITIES › Section 7:15-2.4 - Role of the Department

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The Department
				shall:
1. Conduct a CPP and establish and
				administer policies, procedures, standards, criteria, and rules for water
				quality management;
2. Post
				elements of the CPP on the Department's website at
http://www.nj.gov/dep/wrm/
;
3. Maintain and make available for public
				inspection the current areawide WQM plans including adopted revisions or
				amendments to the plans;
4. Propose
				and process revisions or amendments to areawide WQM plans in accordance with
				this chapter;
5. Consider pertinent
				planning documents while developing or reviewing proposed revisions or
				amendments to areawide WQM plans. Pertinent planning documents include, but are
				not limited to, municipal, county, regional, State, and interstate land use
				plans and adopted components of the areawide WQM plans, such as WMPs and
				TMDLs;
6. Coordinate and direct the
				activities of designated planning agencies in accordance with the CPP and this
				chapter;
7. To the maximum extent
				feasible, act as a resource for designated planning agencies, county planning
				boards, county boards of chosen freeholders, and municipalities providing them
				with technical assistance, and information on best management practices and
				pollution control technologies;
8.
				Provide existing flow data from discharge monitoring reports (DMRs) for each
				permitted DTW and industrial treatment works to respective WMP agencies for WMP
				development;
9. Annually update and
				post at the Department's website at
http://www.nj.gov/dep/wrm/
the
				inventory of wastewater treatment facilities, their existing and permitted
				flows, and the wastewater management needs associated with each facility as
				identified pursuant to
7:15-4.5
;
10. Maintain a current Wastewater Service
				Area Map for the entire State on the Department's website at
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis
;
11. Exercise its delegated authority from the
				Governor to adopt water quality management plan amendments and
				revisions;
12. Post adopted
				revisions and amendments to the areawide plans on the Department's website at
http://www.nj.gov/dep/wrm/
;
13. Delegate aspects and responsibilities of
				the CPP to other State, Federal, interstate, county, or local agencies, and
				also withdraw or transfer such delegations as necessary;
14. Identify water quality limited
				waters;
15. Prepare an Integrated
				Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, and other water quality related
				reports;
16. Establish total
				maximum daily loads, wasteload allocations, load allocations, and water quality
				based effluent limitations;
17.
				Review projects and activities affecting water quality pursuant to the
				Act;
18. In areas of the State not
				served by designated planning agencies, perform the designated WQM planning
				agency functions;
19. Make
				recommendations to the Governor regarding new or amended designations of
				planning agencies and planning areas; and
20. Process amendments or revision on its own
				initiative. 7:15-2.5 Role of designated planning agencies