12:6B-2 - Definitions relative to dredging, dredged material disposal
12:6B-2 Definitions relative to dredging, dredged material disposal
2. As used in this act:
"Containment facility" means an upland or in-water confined disposal facility which shall consist of an artificially constructed island, a diked extension of an existing island, or a diked extension attached to land, and which is used solely for the disposal of dredged materials;
"Decontamination" means a process by which contaminants are removed or reduced from dredged materials, or by which dredged materials are otherwise made acceptable for use;
"Dredge" or "dredging" means the removal of sand, silt, mud, and other materials from the bottom of a waterway in order to deepen navigation channels and ship berths;
"Dredged material" means material removed by dredging that is, in the determination of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, either unsuitable for ocean disposal or suitable for ocean disposal only with capping;
"Port region" means the geographic area created by Article II of the Compact of April 30, 1921, creating the bi-state agency, now known as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and which is commonly referred to as the Port of New York District ;
"Project" means any work relating to the construction of a containment facility or facilities and subaqueous pits for the disposal of dredged material from the port region; the decontamination of dredged material; the dredging of the Kill Van Kull, the Arthur Kill and other navigation channels located in the port region; the dredging of navigation channels not located in the port region; or the purchase of real or personal property, equipment, and any building, construction, and miscellaneous site improvements associated with an economic development site; and
"Task force" means the Dredging Project Facilitation Task Force established pursuant to section 3 of this act .
L.1997,c.97,s.2.