New Jersey S 2285: Provides for licensure of landscape professionals and registration of professional landscaping businesses.

Bill Text

S2285 

SENATE, No. 2285 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JOHN F. MCKEON

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires certain warehouse operators to implement air 
pollution reduction and mitigation plans.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning air pollution caused by certain 
warehouse operations and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� As used in this act:

���� "Compliance period" 
means a 12-month period of time during which a warehouse operator covered under 
the provisions of this act is required to implement an air pollution reduction 
and mitigation plan.

���� "Department" means 
the Department of Environmental Protection.

���� "Partial zero-emission 
vehicle" means a vehicle certified as a partial zero-emission vehicle 
pursuant to the California Air Resources Board vehicle standards for the 
applicable model year.

���� "Warehouse" means a 
building that stores cargo, goods, or products on a short- or long-term basis 
for later distribution to businesses or retail customers.

���� "Warehouse operator" 
means an entity that conducts day-to-day operations at a warehouse, including 
operations conducted through the use of third-party contractors, which entity may 
or may not be the owner of the warehouse.

���� "Zero-emission 
vehicle" means a vehicle certified as a zero-emission vehicle pursuant to 
the California Air Resources Board zero-emission vehicle standards for the 
applicable model year but shall not include a partial zero-emission vehicle.

���� 2.� a.� No later than 24 
months after the effective date of this act, the department shall develop, 
pursuant to the provisions of this act, a program to reduce and mitigate air 
pollution created by warehouse operations in the State.

���� b.� Beginning 36 months after 
the effective date of this act, a warehouse operator that utilizes more than 
50,000 square feet for its operations in a warehouse greater than 100,000 
square feet in size shall not operate in the State unless it implements the 
standard air pollution reduction and mitigation plan developed by the 
department pursuant to section 3 of this act or a custom air pollution 
reduction and mitigation plan developed pursuant to section 4 of this act.

���� 3.� A warehouse operator may 
comply with the provisions of this act by implementing a standard air pollution 
reduction and mitigation plan, provided that the plan has been approved by the 
department pursuant to section 5 of this act.� The department shall develop, as 
part of the rules and regulations adopted to implement this act, a template for 
the standard air pollution reduction and mitigation plan.

���� a.� The standard air pollution 
reduction and mitigation plan shall require warehouse operators to accrue a 
number of air pollution reduction and mitigation points during a compliance 
period, using a formula established in the rules and regulations adopted to 
implement this act.� The number of required points shall be proportional to the 
amount of semi-tractor-trailer truck traffic that originates from the warehouse 
operations during the previous compliance period, which shall be calculated 
using a formula developed by the department pursuant to paragraph (2) of 
subsection a. of section 6 of this act.� The department shall, during the first 
four years of the program established pursuant to subsection a. of section 2 of 
this act, multiply the number of required points by a factor between zero and 
one, which factor may vary according to warehouse operator size.� Beginning on 
the fifth year of the program and thereafter, this factor shall equal one.

���� b.� Under the standard air 
pollution reduction and mitigation plan, a warehouse operator may be awarded 
air pollution reduction and mitigation points only for the following activities 
completed during the compliance period:

���� (1)� purchase of a 
zero-emission vehicle or partial zero-emission vehicle for use in the warehouse 
operator's semi-tractor-trailer truck fleet or as a vehicle used solely to 
perform warehouse operations;

���� (2)� delivery of a load of 
cargo to, or the pick up of a load of cargo from, a warehouse using a semi-tractor-trailer 
truck that is a zero-emission vehicle or partial zero-emission vehicle;

���� (3)� use of a vehicle that is 
a zero-emission vehicle or partial zero-emission vehicle to perform warehouse 
operations for one hour; 

���� (4)� installation of a 
charging or fueling station for zero-emission vehicles to support a warehouse's 
operations;

���� (5)� use of a charging or 
fueling station to charge or fuel a zero-emission vehicle that is used solely 
to perform warehouse operations, or that is in the warehouse operator's semi-tractor-trail