N.J. Admin. Code § 7:26-14A.4

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 7:26-14A.4 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"1980 Act" means the Natural Resources Bond Act of 1980, P.L. 1980, c.70.

"1985 Act" means the Resource Recovery and Solid Waste Disposal Facility Bond Act of 1985, P.L. 1985, c.330, c.331 and c.335.

"Approved solid waste facility" means and includes the plants and structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by any local government unit, including materials recovery facilities, incinerators, resource recovery facilities, sanitary landfill facilities or other plants for the disposal and/or recovery of solid waste.

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection or the Commissioner's designee;

"Construct" and "construction" means, in addition to the usual meanings thereof, the designing, engineering, financing, extension, repair, remodeling, or rehabilitation, or any combination thereof, of a resource recovery facility or an environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility or any component part thereof.

"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection.

"Division" means the Division of Sustainable Waste Management in the Department.

"Environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility" means a sanitary landfill facility which is equipped with a liner or liners, a leachate control and collection system, and a groundwater pollution monitoring system, or any other pollution control or other engineering device required by the Department pursuant to law or rule and regulation, and which is identified and included in a district solid waste management plan pursuant to the provisions of the Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1, et seq.

"Escrow account" means the account established with the escrow bank or the Department for receipt, investment and disbursement of the Fund loan monies.

"Escrow agent" means the entity or individual responsible for authorizing disbursements from the escrow account pursuant to the terms of the Fund loan agreement and the escrow agreement.

"Escrow bank" means the financial institution designated as the escrow bank pursuant to an escrow agreement entered into by the borrower.

"Full scale operation" means the point of time at which a facility becomes commercially available to operate at the facility for which it was designed.

"Fund" means the Resource Recovery and Solid Waste Disposal Facility Fund established pursuant to P.L. 1985, c.330.

"Loan project officer" means, with respect to the local government unit or the State, the person designated to communicate, negotiate and receive all notices and communications relating to the loan agreement or the project.

"Local government unit" means a county, municipality, municipal or county utility authority, an implementing agency pursuant to an approved Solid Waste Management Plan, or any other political subdivision of this State authorized to construct, operate, or arrange for the construction or operation of a resource recovery facility or an environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility.

"Project" means any work relating to the construction or operation of a resource recovery facility or an environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility or an approved solid waste facility by a local government unit.

"Project cost" means the expenses incurred in connection with:

1. The acquisition by purchase, lease, or otherwise of a project; the development of a project; and the construction of any project authorized by the 1985 Act;

2. The acquisition by purchase, lease or otherwise and the development of any real or personal property for use in connection with any project authorized by the 1985 Act, including any rights or interests therein;

3. The execution of any agreements and franchises deemed by the Department to be necessary or useful and convenient in connection with any project authorized by the 1985 Act;

4. The procurement of engineering, inspection, planning, legal, financial, geological, hydrological or other professional services, including the services of a bond registrar or an authenticating agent;

5. The issuance of bonds, or any interest or discount thereon;

6. The administrative, organizational, operating or other expenses incident to the financing, completing and placing into service of projects authorized by the 1985 Act or any related contractual arrangements for providing resource recovery or environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility services;

7. The establishment of a reserve fund or funds for working capital, operating, maintenance or replacement expenses and for the payment or security, principal or interest on bonds, as the State Treasurer may determine; and

8. Reimbursement to any fund of the State of moneys which may have been transferred or advanced therefrom to any fund created by the 1985 Act, or of any moneys which may have been expanded therefrom for or in connection with any project authorized by the 1985 Act.

"Residual landfill" means an environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility which is designed primarily for the disposal of residuals from resource recovery facilities, non-processable wastes for an emergency backup disposal when resource recovery facilities are shut down for repair or maintenance.

"Resource recovery facility" means a solid waste facility constructed and operated for the incineration of solid waste for energy production and the recovery of metals and other materials for reuse, or a mechanized composting facility, or any other solid waste facility constructed or operated for the collection, separation, recycling, and recovery of metals, glass, paper, and other materials for reuse or for energy production, and which is identified and included in a district solid waste management plan pursuant to the provisions of the Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1 et seq.

"Vendor" means a private or public entity qualified and selected by a local government unit in accordance with any applicable law resulting in an agreement whereby the vendor agrees to design, construct, and/or operate a resource recovery facility and/or an environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility or to provide resource recovery facility and/or environmentally sound sanitary landfill facility services to the local government unit.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:26-14A.4

Amended by R.1996 d.578, effective 12/16/1996.
See: 28 New Jersey Register 2114(a), 28 New Jersey Register 5248(a).
Added "approved solid waste facility" and "loan project officer"; and amended "commissioner", "division" "escrow account", and "project".

Administrative Change, 55 N.J.R. 1922(b), effective 7/31/2023