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A2344 • 2026

Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.

Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Moen, William F., Jr.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.

Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.
  • Topic: Environment and Solid Waste Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.
Topic:
Environment and Solid Waste
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2344

ASSEMBLY, No. 2344

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires certain solid waste incinerator facilities
to install baghouse filters when making certain modifications to facility.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

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An Act
concerning air pollution from solid waste incinerators
and supplementing P.L.1954, c.212 (C.26:2C-1 et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� a.� A solid waste
incinerator that is a major facility, and that undertakes a modification or
expansion, shall install a baghouse filter on the equipment of each incinerator
at the facility.� The department shall condition the issuance to the facility
of a permit pursuant to P.L.1954, c.212 (C.26:2C-1 et seq.) on the installation
of a baghouse filter, which is of sufficient size and quality to effectively
filter the emissions from the incinerator equipment at the facility.

���� b.��� The provisions of this
section shall not apply to a solid waste incinerator that has a baghouse
filter, or a more effective filtering system as determined by the department,
installed on the equipment of each incinerator at the facility on the effective
date of this act.

���� c.���� As used in this
section, �expansion� means an increase in the area of the footprint of a
facility, the construction of a new building in the facility, or an increase in
the amount of solid waste annually combusted by the facility that is greater
than 10 percent of the average amount of solid waste combusted by the facility
during the preceding 5 years.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill would supplement the
"Air Pollution Control Act (1954)," P.L.1954, c.212 (C.26:2C-1 et
seq.) (APCA), to require certain solid waste incinerators to install baghouse
filters whenever the facility undertakes a modification or expansion.� A
baghouse filter uses long cylindrical pieces of fabric to filter particulates
from exhaust gases.� They are commonly used in various industrial applications
such as power plants and steel mills.�

���� The bill would apply only to
solid waste incinerators that are considered "major facilities" under
the APCA, due to the quantity of certain air pollutants that they emit on an
annual basis, and that do not currently utilize baghouse filters or better
filtering systems. As defined in the APCA, a "modification" means a
physical change in, or change in the method of operation of, existing equipment
or control apparatus that increases the amount of any air contaminant emitted
by that equipment or control apparatus or that results in the emission of any
air contaminant not previously emitted.� As defined by the bill,
"expansion" means an increase in the area of the footprint of a
facility, the construction of a new building in the facility, or an increase in
the amount of solid waste annually combusted by the facility that is greater
than 10 percent of the average amount of solid waste combusted by the facility
during the preceding 5 years.