Discharge Prevention Containment and Countermeasure (DPCC) Environmental Justice (EJ) Stressors in New Jersey

New Jersey’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Law identifies 7 specific categories of “environmental or public health stressors”. Sites that manufacture, process, store or use hazardous substances are in the category of conditions that may cause potential public health impacts as accidental releases of substances stored at these sites could impact public health in the community. Under the EJ Law a regulated facility prepares an environmental justice impact statement that assesses the potential environmental and public health stressors associated with the proposed new or expanded facility, or with the existing major source, as applicable, including any adverse environmental or public health stressors that cannot be avoided if the permit is granted, and the environmental or public health stressors already borne by the overburdened community as a result of existing conditions located in or affecting the overburdened community. Emergency Planning Environmental Stressors contribute to existing conditions. The sites included in this file are required to prepare emergency or preparedness plans due to the types and quantities of substances manufactured, processed, stored or used. These plans are required under three laws: the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA), the Community and Worker Right to Know Act (CWRTK), and the Spill Compensation and Control Act. The overall goal of planning is to reduce the possibility of discharges or releases of hazardous substances to the environment and minimize the consequences if they do occur.新泽西州《环境正义（Environmental Justice，EJ）法案》明确划定了7类特定的“环境或公共健康压力源（environmental or public health stressors）”。制造、加工、储存或使用危险物质的场所，属于可能引发潜在公共健康影响的类别，因为此类场所储存的物质若发生意外泄漏，可能会对所在社区的公众健康造成负面影响。根据该EJ法案，受监管设施需编制一份环境正义影响声明，以评估与拟新建、扩建设施（或视具体情况而定的现有大型设施）相关的潜在环境及公共健康压力源，其中涵盖若获得许可后仍无法规避的各类不利环境与公共健康压力源，以及因坐落于或影响该环境负担过重社区的现有环境状况，导致该社区已承受的环境与公共健康压力源。应急规划类环境压力源会加剧现有环境状况。本文件收录的场所，因其所制造、加工、储存或使用的物质的种类与数量，需编制应急防范预案。上述预案需依据三部法律法规制定，分别为《有毒灾难预防法（Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act, TCPA）》、《社区与劳动者知情权法（Community and Worker Right to Know Act, CWRTK）》以及《泄漏赔偿与管控法（Spill Compensation and Control Act）》。此类规划的总体目标，是降低危险物质向环境排放或泄漏的可能性，并在泄漏或排放发生时将其造成的后果降至最低。