A 6179 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Modifies provisions concerning licenses for persons who transport, broker, or process solid waste or soil and fill recyclable materials.

This bill modifies licensing requirements for businesses that transport, broker, or process solid waste or soil/fill recyclable materials in New Jersey. It directly affects waste management companies seeking or holding licenses by requiring more detailed disclosure of ownership, business connections, and past violations. Key provisions mandate applicants to submit comprehensive "disclosure statements" to the Attorney General and Environmental Department, including full ownership details, employee information, business affiliations, and records of past regulatory violations or legal judgments related to waste handling. These changes aim to increase transparency and accountability in the waste management industry.

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Dec 2025

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Introduced Dec 8, 2025 Last action Jan 12, 2026

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MODERATE

The Assembly State and Local Government Committee made several amendments to A6179, which modifies the A-901 waste licensing law and the Dirty Dirt law. Key changes include broadening the broker definition to exclude out-of-state waste arrangements, expanding the remediation exemption to cover certified subsurface evaluators and EPA/DEP-administered sites, extending the license application deadline from 45 to 90 days, and adding a new provision prohibiting quantity limits on recycled asphalt pavement under the Dirty Dirt law.

DEFINITION

The broker exclusion no longer requires the person to act 'on the person's own behalf,' broadening who qualifies as a non-broker. A new exclusion was added: a person arranging waste services from New Jersey to an out-of-state facility is not a broker, provided any business concern performing services in New Jersey is licensed.

SCOPE

The remediation activities exemption under the Dirty Dirt law was significantly broadened. It now covers activities conducted by a certified subsurface evaluator (in addition to a licensed site remediation professional) and adds sites where the DEP or EPA is publicly administering or directly contracting for remedial activities. The regulatory citation was updated from N.J.A.C.7:26C-1.1 et seq. to the Site Remediation Reform Act (P.L.2009, c.60).

The public works project exemption was slightly reworded, removing 'for any' before 'State transportation agency,' which may clarify the scope of covered entities.

TIMELINE

The deadline for registrants to submit a soil and fill recycling license application after the department adopts implementing rules was extended from 45 days to 90 days.

REQUIREMENT

A new subsection (i) was added stating that no rule, regulation, permit, approval, guidance, or other administrative action under the Dirty Dirt law may impose any limit on the amount of recycled asphalt pavement stored, used, or reused in accordance with P.L.2017, c.325 (C.13:1E-99.28a).

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Committee

Jan 8, 2026

Lower · Passed

Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading

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Jan 5, 2026

Committee

Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee

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Jan 5, 2026

Committee

Transferred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

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Dec 8, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste Committee

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors