NJ has many hazardous waste sites but, clean ups are ongoing and need to be monitored regularly. Active known and closed sites can be found here. Many Superfund sites have been redeveloped.
The NJ DEP Bureau of Hazardous Waste Compliance and Enforcement program administers the RCRA (Resource Conservation Recovery Act) program in New Jersey to ensures that hazardous waste is properly identified and collected, transported, treated and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.
The Bureau performs the following activities:
- Provides compliance assistance
- Investigates complaints
- Conducts inspections
- Issues enforcement documents, both formal and informal, which may include assessed penalties
- Assists the Attorney General in developing enforcement cases and testifies in court
- Negotiates compliance schedule and penalty settlements
- Registers, tracks, and bills medical waste generators
- Manages permissions for MyRCRAid to allow access to RCRAInfo
- Reviews Biennial Hazardous Waste Reports
- Maintains Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest data used to identify generators that manage hazardous waste off-site, and transporters, storage, and disposal facilities which receive or manage hazardous waste in New Jersey