New Jersey Administrative Code|Section 7:27-21.4 - Procedure for submitting an Emission Statement

                                                
 § 7:27-21.4. Procedure for submitting an Emission Statement 
 
(a) For an Emission Statement submitted for reporting year 2001 or earlier, the following procedures apply:
 
1. The Emission Statement shall be submitted to the Department on or before: 
 
i. May 31, 1993 for a facility subject to this subchapter due to the emissions of 1992; and
 
ii. For each following year, April 15 of each calendar year following any calendar year in which the facility is subject to this subchapter;
 
2. The Emission Statement shall be submitted on a form obtained from the Department at the address listed in (c) below; and
 
3. Any owner or operator submitting an Emission Statement shall transmit the Emission Statement to the Department on paper. With the written prior approval of the Department, an Emission Statement may be submitted on computer diskette or electronically, in a form approved by the Department, in lieu of a submission of an Emission Statement on paper.
 
(b) For an Emission Statement submitted for reporting year 2002 or later, the following procedures apply: 
 
1. Unless the owner or operator obtains approval pursuant to (d) below to submit an Emission Statement on paper, each Emission Statement shall be prepared using the Remote Access Data Information User System (RADIUS) software (or its successor software) available from the Department at the address given at (c) below, and submitted either through NJDEP online (www.njdeponline.com ) or on a Department-accessible electronic storage medium (such as a CD) delivered to the Department at the address at (c) below;
 
2. If a claim of confidentiality is being asserted for any information in an Emission Statement, pursuant to (e) below, the following shall apply: 
 
i. A version of the Emission Statement which is complete, except that it omits the information which is claimed to be confidential, shall be submitted to the Department. This document shall be submitted electronically unless the owner or operator obtains approval to submit it on paper pursuant to (d) below. Information included in any electronic submittal shall be information for which no claim of confidentiality is being made;
 
ii. In addition to the submittal made pursuant to (b)2i above, a complete version of the Emission Statement shall also be submitted on paper, and it shall include the information that is claimed to be confidential as well as all other information required; and
 
iii. The information given in both versions of the Emission Statement shall be identical, except that the information claimed to be confidential shall be omitted from the version submitted pursuant to (b)2i above; and
 
3. An Emission Statement shall be submitted to the Department by the following due date: 
 
i. For submittals on paper pursuant to (d) below, by April 15 of the submittal year; and
 
ii. For submittals either through NJDEP online (www.njdeponline.com ) or on a Department-accessible electronic storage medium, by May 15 of the submittal year; this due date shall also apply to the paper copy of the Emission Statement submitted when certain information in the electronic version of the Emission Statement is claimed to be confidential.
 
(c) The Department's Bureau of Air Quality Planning shall be the Department's point of contact for the Emission Statement program. As such:
 
1. Emission Statements shall be submitted to the Bureau:
 
2. Documents useful to persons preparing Emission Statement submittals, such as the Department's Emission Statement Guidance Document, copies of forms, and instructions, may be viewed and downloaded from the Bureau's web page at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/baqp/ ; and
 
3. The Bureau may be contacted for instructions on how to download a copy of RADIUS, to obtain any documents referenced in this subchapter, or to seek answers to questions pertaining to the Emission Statement Program. The Bureau may be contacted by phone ((609) 292-6722) or e-mail at mailto:emis_statement@dep.state.nj.us.Correspondence shall be sent to the Bureau at the following address: 
 
 Department of Environmental Protection
 
Bureau of Air Quality Planning
 
Attn: Emission Statements
 
Mail Code 401-07H
 
PO Box 420
 
Trenton, N.J. 08625-0420
 
(d) If it is a hardship for an owner or operator to submit an Emission Statement electronically, the owner or operator may request approval from the Department to submit the Emission Statement on a paper form. The Department shall approve such a request provided that: 
 
1. The request is certified by the responsible official in accordance with 7:27-1.39 and submitted to the Department no later than March 1 of the submittal year;
 
2. The owner or operator explains: 
 
i. The grounds of the hardship electronic submittal would impose; and
 
ii. The effort(s) the owner or operator will make to ensure the facility's ability to make electronic submittals in the future; and
 
3. The owner or operator agrees to make every effort to become able to submit the form electronically in future years.
 
(e) Any person who submits information to the Depart-ment may assert a confidentiality claim for that information in accordance with 7:27-1.6. Emissions information, as established at 7:27-1.18, is not confidential. The Department will process and evaluate confidentiality claims in accordance with 7:27-1.6 through 1.30 inclusive.
 (Amended by 49 N.J.R. 3511(a), effective November 6, 2017)