13:1E-20. Solid waste management plans

a. (1) Within 360 days after the effective date of this amendatory and supplementary act, the respective boards of chosen freeholders, in the case of counties, and the Hackensack Commission, in the case of the Hackensack Meadowlands District, shall develop and formulate, pursuant to the procedures herein contained, a solid waste management plan for each respective solid waste management district; provided, however, that the commissioner may extend such period for a maximum of 45 additional days upon the certification of the board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission, as the case may be, of the causes of the delay in developing and formulating a plan, and upon the commissioner's determination that an extension will permit the development and formulation of a solid waste management plan as required herein. Within 90 days of the effective date of this act, each district shall make the necessary personnel, financial and legal arrangements to assure the development and formulation of the plan within 360 days of the effective date of this act. Every solid waste management plan shall be developed and formulated to be in force and effect for a period of not less than 10 years, upon the expiration of which a new plan shall be developed and formulated pursuant to the procedures herein contained; provided, however, that every such plan shall contain provisions for automatic review thereof not less than once every two years following the approval thereof by the department, which review shall be undertaken by the board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission, as the case may be; and provided further, however, that every such plan may be reviewed at any time by the department. Upon such review, if the board of chosen freeholders, the Hackensack Commission, or the department, as the case may be, determines that any solid waste management plan, or any part thereof, is inadequate for the purposes for which it was intended, such board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission, as the case may be, shall develop and formulate a new solid waste management plan, or any part thereof, and such new plan, or part thereof, shall be adopted thereby pursuant to the procedures contained in section 14 of P.L. 1975, c. 326 (C. 13:1E-23).

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as to prevent any board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission from readopting a solid waste management plan upon the expiration of same in a solid waste management district; provided, however, that any such readoption shall be pursuant to the provisions of section 14 of P.L. 1975, c. 326 (C. 13:1E-23).

(2) Any two or more districts may formulate and adopt a single solid waste management plan which shall meet all the requirements of this act for the combined area of the cooperating solid waste management districts.

b. (1) To assist each board of chosen freeholders in the development and formulation of the solid waste management plans required herein, an advisory solid waste council shall be constituted in every county and shall include municipal mayors or their designees, persons engaged in the collection or disposal of solid waste and environmentalists. The respective size, composition and membership of each such council shall be designated by the respective boards of chosen freeholders. In the Hackensack Meadowlands District, the Hackensack Meadowlands Municipal Committee, established pursuant to article 4 of P.L. 1968, c. 404 (C. 13:17-7 and 13:17-8), is hereby designated an advisory solid waste council for the purposes of this amendatory and supplementary act; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as in any way altering the powers, duties and responsibilities of the Hackensack Meadowlands Municipal Committee except as herein specifically provided. The respective boards of chosen freeholders and the Hackensack Commission shall consult with the relevant advisory solid waste council at such stages in the development and formulation of the solid waste management plan as each such board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission, as the case may be, shall determine; provided, however, that a solid waste management plan shall be adopted as hereinafter provided only after consultation with the relevant advisory solid waste council.

(2) In the development and formulation of a solid waste management plan for any solid waste management district, the board of chosen freeholders or the Hackensack Commission, as the case may be, shall:

(a) Consult with the county or municipal government agencies concerned with, or responsible for, water pollution control, water policy, water supply, or zoning or land use within the solid waste management district;

(b) Review such plans for solid waste collection and disposal proposed by, or in force in, any municipality or municipalities within the solid waste management district, to determine the suitability of any such plan, or any part thereof, for inclusion within the solid waste management plan of the solid waste management district; and

(c) Consult with persons engaged in solid waste collection and disposal in the solid waste management district.

L. 1975, c. 326, s. 11. Amended by L. 1985, c. 38, s. 35, eff. Feb. 4, 1985.