Section 13:1D-48 - Designation of priority industrial facilities to receive permita. Within 18 months of adoption of the rules and regulations required pursuant to section 6 of this act, the department shall designate no fewer than 10 but not more than 15 individual priority industrial facilities to each receive a facility-wide permit on the basis of criteria adopted by the department. These criteria shall include, but need not be limited to:(1) The potential for a priority industrial facility to serve as a State-wide model for multimedia pollution prevention programs;(2) The potential for a priority industrial facility that does not meet industry-wide pollution prevention goals to meet these goals through a facility-wide permit; and(3) The potential for a priority industrial facility that has not met the pollution prevention goals set forth in its pollution prevention plan to meet these goals through a facility-wide permit. At the time of the designation of priority industrial facilities pursuant to this subsection, the department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a report summarizing the designation process and progress made to date in establishing a facility-wide permitting program.
b. Within 30 months of the adoption of the rules and regulations required pursuant to section 6 of this act, the department shall issue facility-wide permits to the priority industrial facilities designated pursuant to subsection a. of this section.c. Within 36 months of the adoption of the rules and regulations required pursuant to section 6 of this act, the department shall prepare and submit to the Governor and the Legislature a report analyzing the facility-wide permit program, evaluating the successes or shortcomings of the facility-wide permit program, evaluating the ability of the department to conduct and expand the facility-wide permit program, and proposing, if warranted, a schedule to expand the applicability of the facility-wide permit program. The department shall not expand the facility-wide permitting program beyond the number of priority industrial facilities designated pursuant to subsection a. of this section without authorization by law.