{"id":1158,"date":"2021-09-10T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/?page_id=1158"},"modified":"2021-10-14T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:24:22","slug":"20200803a-ph","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/notice-of-rule-proposal-archive\/20200803a-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"20200803a-ph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>NJ DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION<\/b><br \/>\nWATER AND LAND MANAGEMENT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice of Public Hearing on Notice of Rule Proposal <\/strong><br \/>\nCoastal Zone Management Rules<br \/>\nProposal of Amendments and new rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7, Coastal Zone Management Rules; N.J.A.C. 7:7A,<br \/>\nFreshwater Wetlands Protection Act Rules; and N.J.A.C. 7:13, Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLIC NOTICE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Take notice<\/strong> that the Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is holding a public hearing for the proposed amendments and new rules in the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Rules, Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act (FWPA) Rules, and Flood Hazard Area Control Act (FHACA) Rules to require electronic submission of applications for all general permit authorizations, individual permits, water quality certificates, freshwater wetland transition area waivers, and any flood hazard area verifications that are submitted in conjunction with an application for a general permit authorization, individual permit, or transition area waiver. The notice of proposal was published in the New Jersey Register on August 3, 2020, at 52 N.J.R. 1522(a).<\/p>\n<p>The Department will be holding a public hearing on Friday, September 25, 2020, at 10:00 A.M.\u00a0 The hearing will be conducted virtually through the Department\u2019s video conferencing software (that is, Microsoft Teams).\u00a0 A link to the virtual public hearing will be provided on the Department\u2019s Division of Land Resource Protection\u2019s website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/dep\/landuse\/news.html\">https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/dep\/landuse\/news.html<\/a>).\u00a0 The hearing will remain open until all testimony has been heard.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in providing oral testimony at the virtual public hearing, please email the Department at <a href=\"mailto:kim.springer@deptest.nj.gov\">kim.springer@deptest.nj.gov<\/a> \u00a0no later than 5:00 P.M. Wednesday, September 23, 2020, with your contact information (name, organization, telephone number, and email address).\u00a0 You must provide a valid email address so the Department can send you an email confirming receipt of your interest to testify orally at the hearing and provide you with a separate option for a telephone call-in line if you do not have access to a computer that can connect to Microsoft Teams.\u00a0 Please note that the Department will take oral testimony at the hearing by alphabetical order of the testifying person\u2019s last name, and that this hearing will be recorded.\u00a0 Written comments will be accepted through October 2, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Department encourages electronic submittal of comments at <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/comment-on-dep-rulemaking-2\/\">https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/comment-on-dep-rulemaking-2\/<\/a>. In the alternative, comments may be submitted on paper<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gary J. Brower, Esq.<br \/>\nATTN: DEP Docket No. 03-20-07<br \/>\nNJ Department of Environmental Protection<br \/>\nOffice of Legal Affairs<br \/>\nMail Code 401-04L; PO Box 402<br \/>\n401 East State Street, 7th Floor<br \/>\nTrenton, NJ 08625-0402<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please refer to the original notice of proposal for detailed information regarding the proposed rules.\u00a0 The notice of proposal may be viewed or downloaded from the Department\u2019s website at <a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/proposals\/20200803a.pdf\">https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/proposals\/20200803a.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NJ DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WATER AND LAND MANAGEMENT Notice of Public Hearing on Notice of Rule Proposal Coastal Zone Management Rules Proposal of Amendments and new rules, N.J.A.C. 7:7, Coastal Zone Management Rules; N.J.A.C. 7:7A, Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act Rules; and N.J.A.C. 7:13, Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules PUBLIC NOTICE Take notice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth-title.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}