New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 30 - LOCAL FINANCE BOARD › Subchapter 8 - FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION › Section 5:30-8.11 - Stormwater utility reports

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Any local unit that
				establishes a stormwater utility pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				40A:26B-1 et seq., shall submit, concurrent with
				the adoption of the local unit's annual budget, an annual stormwater utility report
				to both the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community
				Affairs and the Department of Environmental Protection. The stormwater utility
				report shall be certified by the chief financial officer.
(b) The stormwater utility report shall contain
				the following information for the local unit's prior and current budget years:
1. Service area of the local unit's stormwater
				utility;
2. Schedule of stormwater fees,
				other charges, and credits established by the local units, including whether the
				rate structure is individually calculated, tiered, or a uniform flat fee. If the
				rate structure is individually calculated, the calculation method shall be
				described;
3. Billing frequency and
				whether the local unit directly bills tenants of a property;
4. The number of properties that are subject to
				stormwater fees and other charges, including rights-of-way and easements regardless
				of whether or not they are assigned a lot and block number;
5. Total realized and anticipated revenues from
				stormwater fees and other charges;
6.
				The number of properties granted credits or exemptions from any fees or charges
				broken down by land use type, including, but not necessarily limited to,
				residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural, along with the cumulative
				value of credits granted to properties of each land use type. The term "properties"
				shall include rights-of-way and easements regardless of whether or not they are
				assigned a lot and block number;
7. A
				breakdown of credits by the following types:
i. A
				property maintaining and operating a stormwater management system complying with the
				State and local stormwater management standards that were in place at the time the
				system was approved and that effectively reduces, retains, or treats stormwater
				onsite;
ii. A property that has
				installed and is operating and maintaining current stormwater best management
				practices that reduce, retain, or treat stormwater onsite and which are approved by
				the local unit establishing the stormwater utility; and
iii. Any property that has installed and is
				operating and maintaining green infrastructure that reduces, retains, or treats
				stormwater onsite and that exceeds any requirements for green infrastructure that
				may be applicable to that property pursuant to any rule or regulation adopted by the
				Department of Environmental Protection or the local stormwater control
				ordinance;
8. The percentage
				and amount of revenues from fees and other charges appropriated and spent on each of
				the following purposes:
i. Initial establishment of
				the stormwater utility;
ii.
				Administrative support;
iii. Capital
				expenditures, including planning, design, engineering, acquisition, construction,
				and improvement of the stormwater management system; and
iv. Any action required pursuant to any New Jersey
				Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit, including the following:
(1) Development and implementation of an asset
				management program for the stormwater management system, a stormwater management
				plan, and stormwater control ordinances pursuant to
				N.J.S.A.
				40:55D-93;
(2) Any long-term control plan to mitigate
				combined sewer overflows pursuant to State or Federal law, rule, regulation, permit,
				or consent decree;
(3) Other capital
				expenditures;
(4) Operation and
				maintenance expenditures of the stormwater management system;
(5) Shared services agreements with other local
				units;
(6) Monitoring, inspection, and
				enforcement activities related to stormwater management and mitigation;
				and
(7) Public education and outreach
				related to stormwater management;
9. FCOA codes used for stormwater utility-related
				revenues and appropriations in the local unit's budget;
10. All capital projects listed in the capital
				budget and program that are related to stormwater management and
				mitigation;
11. Whether there is an
				asset management plan for the stormwater management system in place or one currently
				under development; and
12. Methods of
				stormwater management-related public education and outreach that are being
				undertaken by the local unit.