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Gloucester County considers resolution to join NJDEP settlement with DuPont, 3M
Summary
At its May 4, 2026 meeting the Gloucester County Board of Commissioners reviewed Resolution 56564, which would authorize the county to participate as a third‑party intervenor in a proposed multi‑county settlement between the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, and 3M. The minutes record filing timelines and a confidential term sheet; a final vote outcome is not specified in the transcripted text.
Gloucester County officials reviewed a resolution on May 4, 2026 that would authorize the county to participate in a proposed settlement of multi‑county litigation involving the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, and 3M.
The document on the agenda, Resolution 56564, is described in the minutes as authorizing settlement with Gloucester County as a third‑party intervenor. The minutes state that the counties' settlement terms will be set forth in a confidential term sheet and incorporated into a draft Implementation Plan filed with the court along with the State's Supplementary Report on April 30, 2026. The minutes further record a timeline for approval: parties were to provide full and final approval no later than May 10, 2026, and the counties were to file a statement of unqualified support with the court on May 11, 2026 and withdraw any previously filed objections.
The minutes record the resolution on the docket under the Department of Administration; the text presented in the record does not attribute these procedural details to a specific speaker. The transcripted minutes do not include the full confidential term sheet, nor do they provide a readable vote tally or a clear textual confirmation of final passage in the minutes supplied. Where the minutes show vote columns and X marks, the formatting in the transcript makes an explicit, attributable roll call result unclear in the provided text.
The meeting followed routine procedure: the board opened and closed a public comment period for agenda items (the minutes note "Comments: n/a"), cycled through items listed as Old Business and New Business, and recorded a motion to adjourn. The minutes begin with the board reading the Open Public Meetings Act notice and recording that notice was posted on the county website on April 30, 2026.
Next steps recorded in the minutes focus on filings with the court and internal approvals: the confidential term sheet and draft Implementation Plan were to be filed April 30, 2026; full and final approval by the parties was expected by May 10, 2026; and counties were to file a statement of support by May 11, 2026. The minutes do not disclose the monetary or remedial terms of the settlement, nor do they provide text from the confidential term sheet.
The Gloucester County minutes list Director DiMarco and Deputy Director Jefferson under the Department of Administration heading for resolutions. No public comments or witness testimony about the settlement appear in the transcripted minutes provided.
The record in these minutes is principally procedural. The resolution and its filing timetable are documented; the confidential nature of the term sheet and the lack of an explicit, readable vote result in the supplied transcript mean the minutes do not, by themselves, establish whether the county completed a final approving vote during this session.
