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Committee releases three environment bills; community-garden composting exemption advances after testimony
Summary
The Assembly Environment and Natural Resources and Solid Waste Committee unanimously released three bills: AB1318 (expands public boat access to reservoirs and county lakes, removes a $2,000,000 appropriation), AB1872 (exempts certain community-garden composting from DEP permits), and AB1873 (prioritizes DEP funding for land acquisition and flood-mitigation projects).
The Assembly Environment and Natural Resources and Solid Waste Committee met and voted to release three bills from committee, including a measure to exempt certain community-garden composting operations from Department of Environmental Protection permits after supporters described permit costs and regulatory barriers.
AB1872, as amended, would exempt community gardens operating on-site composting systems or other organic-waste management systems from specified DEP permitting requirements in defined circumstances. Alexis Bailey of Public Strategies Impact, representing the Association of New Jersey Recyclers, told the committee the bill would cut red tape and…
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