This directory provides school facility managers with convenient access to department, state and federal guidance regarding environmental regulations directed towards facilities management and operations, environmental and human health concerns, indoor and outdoor environmental quality and natural resource management. It also provides links to additional non-regulatory environmental facility and property topics, such as green building design, best management practices, and related governmental and non-governmental resources.

The directory is designed as a resource for school, daycare, college and university administrators and business managers, grounds and maintenance staff, school board and parent association members, school nurses, educators, parents, students and other interested professionals.

Go to SEEDS, the "State Environmental Education Directory Site," for environmental education curriculum and instructional resources.

User Tips
Compliance Advisory: Most Common Violations Detected at Schools (pdf)

For questions about:

Indoor Air Quality; call the Department of Health & Senior Services at (609) 631-6749

Childcare and Educational Facility requirements, and No Further Action letters, access the website: Child Care Centers, Guidance for Licensing of Proposed Sites or call (609) 292-8602

Wells, water quality & treatment systems, call NJDEP’s Safe Drinking Water Program at (609) 292-5550

Certified Laboratories, call (609) 292-3950 or for the list of certified laboratories access the website: www.nj.gov/dep/oqa/certlabs.htm.

Specific building code requirements, contact the construction official of the municipality in which the building is located: Local Construction Officials (pdf)

General questions on building designations or the applicability of these new requirements, call the Department of Community Affairs Code Assistance Unit at (609) 984-7609, or e-mail: codeassist@dca.state.nj.us

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• Abbott District School Construction Program
  
  
• Chemical Management and Storage
  
  
• Child Care Centers, Guidance for Licensing of Proposed Sites
  
  
• GreenStart (Compliance Assistance for Schools)
  
  
• Healthy School Facility Environments
  
• Integrated Pest Management Program
  
  
• Licensing of Proposed Child Care Centers
  
  
• Noise Information
  
  
• Recycling
  
• School Bus Idling
  
  
• School Bus Inspections and Alternatively Fueled Buses
  
  
• Underground Storage Tanks
  
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• Air Monitoring Network
  
  
• Radon Testing for Schools
  
  
• Recycled Products (Purchasing Information)
  
  
• Recycling Information: College Administrator, School Administrator.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Air Quality Permitting Program
  
  
• Compliance and Enforcement
  
  
• Environmental Guidance for Licensing of Proposed Child Care Centers
  
  
• Land Use Compliance and Enforcement
  
  
• Recycling in New Jersey
  
• Right to Know Hazardous Substances Fact Sheets / Home page
  
  
• Solid and Hazardous Waste Rules-Regulations
  
  
• Underground Storage Tanks
  
  
• Underground Injection Systems (Including Different Types
  of Subsurface Disposal Such as Septic Systems)
  
  
• Safe Drinking Water
  
  
  

• Hazardous Substance Use and Management (Department of Health and Senior Services)
  
  
• Healthy Schools, Healthy Students, Healthy Staff (Department of Health and Senior Services)
  
  
• Indoor Environments Program-Asbestos, Lead, Mold and Other Pollutants
  (Department of Health and Senior Services)
  
  
• New Jersey Department of Education
  
• New Jersey Safe Schools Program
  
  
• New Jersey Schools Development Authority
  
  
  

• Build Green Schools (U.S. Green Building Council)
  
  
• Healthy School Environment Resources (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  
  
• Healthy Schools (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
  
  
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Online (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  
  
• Small Quantity Generator Information (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)