"Construction Containment and Pollution Prevention Act"; requires contractors to use containment devices to prevent release of certain pollutants outside of worksites.
What changed between versions
The definition of 'Contractor' was narrowed from any entity engaged in construction, renovation, demolition, or maintenance on any commercial or residential property to any person or business entity performing such work that involves a 'covered activity,' with maintenance now limited to permit-required maintenance only.
A new defined term 'Covered activity' was added, meaning any construction, renovation, demolition, or permit-required maintenance operation that generates or is reasonably likely to generate dust, debris, sediment, plastic fragments, slurry, or other particulate pollutants capable of depositing into soil, leaving the worksite, entering storm drains or waterways, or dispersing into the open air.
Section 3(b)(5) removed the specific ASTM filter specifications (D4491, D4751, D4355) and replaced them with a conditional requirement: if a covered activity may result in runoff entering a storm drain, drainage structure, or surface water, the contractor must install inlet protection, filtration, sediment controls, or equivalent measures per standards adopted by the department in consultation with DEP.
Section 4 added 'the open air, soil' to the list of places where a contractor shall not discharge or deposit pollutants generated on the worksite.
Section 3(a) expanded the media to be protected from pollutant release to explicitly include 'open air' in addition to soil and water.
A new subsection was added to Section 5 stating that the department may consult with the Department of Environmental Protection in administering and implementing the act.
Section 6 (rulemaking) now requires the department to adopt rules in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, adding a formal interagency coordination requirement.
