Facility Wide Permitting Program
In addition to creating the industrial pollution
prevention planning and reporting program, the New Jersey Pollution
Prevention Act also established a pilot program on Facility-wide
Permitting (FWP). The pilot program was designed to test the concept
of incorporating pollution prevention planning data with individual
air, water and hazardous waste permit requirements into a single
comprehensive document. Eighteen volunteer facilities were accepted
into the pilot program.
The single greatest factor that distinguishes the
FWP program from all others is the inclusion of pollution prevention
materials accounting data into the permitting process. The use of
this data led to the following:
- reductions in hazardous substance use and generation;
- the identification and accounting of previously unregulated
releases;
- the identification of multimedia transfers of pollutants;
- the identification of total facility risks and environmental
impacts;
- operational flexibility
