After over two years of stakeholder meetings under the patient direction of the primary sponsors Senator Bob Smith and Assemblywoman Nancy Pinken and unanimous approval by the Legislature, on August 23, Governor Murphy signed the latest legislation regarding how sites are cleaned-up in New Jersey, P.L. 2019, c. 263 (the “Act”).
The adoption of the Site Remediation Reform Act (SRRA) in 2009 creating the Licensed Site Remediation Professional (LSRP) program was viewed as a “sea change” for remediation of contaminated sites in New Jersey. Over the past 10 years, the LSRP program has expedited the remediation of contaminated sites and the redevelopment of brownfield sites.
