The
Bureau of Financing and Construction Permits has overall engineering
(planning, design, and construction) responsibility for ensuring
all projects meet the requirements of the Environmental Infrastructure
Financing Program (EIFP) and various State-only programs.
The bureau also administers the Treatment Works Approval,
Capacity Assurance, Sewer Ban, and the Combined Sewer Overflow
General Permitting Programs.
Funding
Program Responsibilities
The
bureau assists project sponsors on an individual basis through
the preplanning, planning, design and construction phases
of each project. This ensures they obtain the desired financial
assistance at the earliest possible time to advance water
quality improvement objectives.
PLANNING
AND DESIGN ACTIVITIES
The Engineering Sections assist municipalities with planning
and design of municipal wastewater treatment and conveyance
facilities, combined sewer corrective actions, as well as
stormwater/nonpoint source management projects. The Engineering
Sections also assists publicly and privately owned drinking
water systems with planning and design for construction and
upgrade of drinking water facilities, transmission and distribution
systems, storage facilities and source development. The section
conducts preplanning and predesign meetings with prospective
applicants and consulting engineers. The section provides
appropriate guidance to loan and grant applications and consulting
engineers for the preparation of technically acceptable planning
and design documents, in accordance with associated rules
and regulations.
North Contact Person:
William
Machotka , P.E., Section Chief, (609) 292-3025
South Contact Person: Steven
Betz, Section Chief, (609) 633-1169
CSO Contact Person:
Shadab
Ahmad, P.E., Section Chief, (609) 292-5563
In
addition to the EIFP, the largest financing program administered,
which includes significant state and federal sources of funds,
the bureau performs the same function for projects funded
by the Federal Grants Program, Pinelands Infrastructure Financing
Program, Sewage Infrastructure Improvement Act Program, and
State 8% Matching Loan Program.
Municipal
Finance Applications
Wastewater
Financing
TREATMENT
WORKS APPROVALS
The Treatment
Works Approval (TWA) program regulates the construction and
operation of domestic wastewater collection, conveyance and
treatment facilities, including treatment plants, pumping
stations, interceptors, sewer mains and other collection,
holding and conveyance systems. The program is aimed at protecting
the waters of the state by preventing the entry of increased
pollutants from inadequate facilities. The administrative
and technical requirements of the TWA program are stipulated
in N.J.A.C. 7:14A-22 and 23, respectively. The TWA program
is subject to the provisions of the 90-Day Rule (N.J.A.C.
7:1C-1 et seq.).
North
Contact Person: James
Pontoriero, Supervisor, (609) 292-3025
South Contact Person: Tracy
Shevlin, P.E., Supervisor, (609) 633-1169
TWA
Application Forms and Checklists
Common
TWA Application Deficiencies
Go
to TWA
Page
COMBINED
SEWER OVERFLOW (CSO) PROGRAM
The CSO
Control Program regulates combined sewer systems (CSS) and
their corresponding combined sewer overflow points (CSO) through
the issuance of NJPDES permits. The program’s objectives
are to bring these CSSs and CSOs into compliance with the
technology and water quality based requirements of the Clean
Water Act as defined in the National CSO Control Policy.
Contact Person: Shadab
Ahmad, P.E., Section Chief, (609) 292-5563
CAPACITY
ASSURANCE PROGRAM
The
Capacity Assurance Program assesses how a treatment plant
owner will prevent a plant from exceeding its permitted design
flow capacity. This program is required when a treatment plant's
actual and permitted flows exceed 80 percent of the permitted
design capacity.
North
Contact Person: James
Pontoriero, Supervisor, (609) 292-3025
South Contact Person: Tracy
Shevlin, P.E., Supervisor, (609) 633-1169
Go to Capacity
Assurance Program.
SEWER
BANS
The sewer
ban program requires the imposition of sewer connection bans
for treatment plants failing to meet their NJPDES effluent
discharge limitations, or conveyance systems that do not have
adequate conveyance capacity. A moratorium may also be imposed
on treatment plants when the sum of existing wastewater flows
and the flows allocated to approved projects (that are not
yet operational), has reached 100 percent of the plant's permitted
capacity.
The purpose
of the sewer ban program is to limit further pollution by
restricting additional sewage flow to the non-conforming treatment
works.
North
Contact Person: James
Pontoriero, Supervisor, (609) 292-3025
South Contact Person: Tracy
Shevlin, P.E., Supervisor, (609) 633-1169
Go
to Sewer
Ban Program.
SEWER
BAN EXEMPTIONS
The
Sewer Ban Exemption program, administered in conjunction with
the Sewer Ban program, allows projects that meet specific
criteria to be exempted from a sewer ban.
North
Contact Person: James
Pontoriero, Supervisor, (609) 292-3025
South Contact Person: Tracy
Shevlin, P.E., Supervisor, (609) 633-1169
Sewer
Ban Exemption Application
NJDEP-DWQ
Bureau of Financing and Construction Permits
401 E. State Street
P.O. Box 425
Trenton, NJ 08625-0425
