Watchdogs warily eye rollout of new N.J. waste site cleanup scheme
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD
Greenwire/New York Times
May 26, 2009
LYNDHURST, N.J. -- New Jersey is rolling out an ambitious and highly controversial scheme to clean up industrial waste sites, modeled on a Massachusetts program that critics say has a mixed record.
The state Department of Environmental Protection is aiming over the next three years to systematically free itself from direct responsibility for cleaning up more than 10,000 polluted brownfields and several Superfund sites. DEP plans to hand over remediation planning and monitoring to contractors hired by owners of contaminated properties.
In anticipation of the shift, brownfield rehabilitation and engineering professionals launched the Licensed Site Remediation Professionals Association, a trade group whose members will carry out the plan that Gov. Jon Corzine (D) signed into law May 7, referred to by most as the LSRP initiative.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/05/26/26greenwire-watchdogs-warily-eye-rollout-of-new-nj-waste-s-39851.html
Of course the nearest we have to this is the Specialist in Land Condition qualification (see www.silc.org.uk for further details)
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