New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Chapter 8 - RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY › Subchapter 12 - SITING RULES FOR GRID SUPPLY AND LARGE NET METERED SOLAR FACILITIES › Section 14:8-12.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Agricultural development area" or "ADA" means an area
				  identified by a county agriculture development board, pursuant to the
				  provisions at
				  N.J.S.A.
				  4:1C-18, and certified by the State
				  Agriculture Development Committee.
"Committee" means the State Agriculture Development Committee
				  created pursuant to P.L.
				  1983, c. 31 (N.J.S.A.
				  4:1C-4).
"County concentration limit" means five percent of the area
				  of unpreserved covered agricultural lands in a single New Jersey county.
"Covered agricultural land" means all land containing prime
				  agricultural soils or soils of Statewide importance, as identified by the U.S.
				  Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, located
				  within an individual county's designated agricultural development area, as
				  determined by the Committee.
"Cumulative solar development" means the total number of
				  acres of covered agricultural lands that are used to host CSI-eligible
				  facilities, including those registered with the Board and those that have been
				  constructed after implementation of the CSI Program.
"Forested land" or "forestland" means land that is at least
				  1.0 acre in size and 120.0 feet wide and that has, or has had within the past
				  10 years, at least 10 percent crown cover by live tally trees of any size or at
				  least 10 percent canopy cover of live tally species, based on the presence of
				  stumps, snags, or other evidence. Forested land includes transition zones, such
				  as areas between forest and nonforestland that meet the minimal tree
				  stocking/cover and forest areas adjacent to urban and built-up lands.
"Prime agricultural soils" shall have the meaning as
				  identified by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources
				  Conservation Service (NRCS) as available through the NRCS websoil survey
				  (
http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm
).
"Soils of Statewide importance" shall have the meaning as
				  identified by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources
				  Conservation Service (NRCS) as available through the NRCS websoil survey
				  (
http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm
).
"Statewide threshold" means two and one-half percent of the
				  Statewide area of covered agricultural lands.
"Transition zone" means an area between forested land and
				  non-forestland that meets the minimal tree stocking or tree cover level, forest
				  areas adjacent to urban and built-up lands, or other land that is adjacent to
				  both forested land and to non-forested land.
"Wetlands" means those areas regulated by the NJDEP pursuant
				  to N.J.A.C. 7:7 and 7:7A, or the Army Corps of Engineers. Included in this
				  category are naturally vegetated swamps, marshes, bogs, and savannas that are
				  normally associated with topographically low elevations, but may be located at
				  any elevation where water perches over an aquiclude.