Program Activities - What we do
	Offices - Contacts and Locations
	Compliance Advisories
	Who do I call to report a complaint?
	Who do I call to report a Noise complaint?
	CEHA Program
	Sector-based Compliance Assistance Program
	Noise Control Council
	County Health Agencies
	What a CEHA Agengy is authorized to do
	What a municipality is authorized to do
	Intra-state county Mutual Aid Agreement for CBRNE services
	County Cost Recovery Ordinance
	Uniform Shared Services Agreement for Hazmat Services
	Overview of CY 2009 Activities/Outputs

Program Activities
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Bureau of Local Environmental Management (BLEM) oversees the administration of the following:

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Bureau of Local Environmental Management (BLEM) oversees the administration of the County Environmental Health Act (CEHA) program and the State of New Jersey Noise Control Act.

As its primary function, BLEM administers the CEHA program by awarding grant funds on an annual basis to 21 CEHA certified county health agencies. NJDEP delegates its enforcement authority to these county health agencies in the environmental program areas of air pollution, safe drinking water, solid waste, noise and local hazardous-material emergency response. BLEM has also expanded the CEHA scope of programs to include special projects in air toxics, pesticides, underground storage tank inspections, right-to-know, coastal cooperative monitoring, freshwater bathing beach monitoring and migrant farm drinking water sampling.

BLEM is responsible for oversight of the Noise Control Act, and through CEHA, delegates all enforcement of the Act to the certified county health agencies. BLEM also assists municipalities in the development and adoption of local noise ordinances.

In addition to Greenstart, BLEM has developed a compliance assistance program that is sector-based (focus on a specific type of business or operation). Presently through this initiative, site visits are conducted at public and private marinas and municipal public works facilities to ensure that they hold the proper permits and are complying with state environmental regulations.


Statutory and regulatory authority
N.J.S.A. 26:3A2-21 et seq.
N.J.A.C. 7:1H et seq.;
Noise Control Act: N.J.A.C. 7:29 et seq.


Who do I call to report a violation?
To report a violation or any environmental incident impacting New Jersey, call the DEP 24 hour toll-free environmental hotline, @ 1-877-927-6337.