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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is a government agency in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is responsible for managing the state's natural resources and addressing issues related to pollution. NJDEP now has a staff of approximately 2,850. The department was created on April 22, 1970, America's first official Earth Day, making it the third state in the country to combine its environmental activities into a single, unified agency, with about 1,400 employees in five divisions, charged with responsibility for environmental protection and conservation efforts. Governor William T. Cahill appointed Richard J. Sullivan as the first commissioner.〔(about.njdep ), www.nj.gov/dep〕 ==Divisions== The major goal of the air quality division is to ensure the cleanliness of the air quality by enforcing air-pollutant standards imposed by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/daq/ )〕 Water monitoring and standards has the primary responsibilities of closely monitoring the state's fresh, marine, and ground waters, developing surface and ground water quality standards, and characterizing and assessing water quality. The gathered information, data, reports and analysis are used to inform organizations and the public to make better decisions on behalf of water usage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nj.gov/dep/wms/ )〕 The land and open space division provides rules and includes information concerning wetlands, coastal, and stream/floodplain encroachment programs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/infofinder/topics/land.htm )〕 The site remediation program requires all remediations in the state to proceed under the supervision of a licensed site remediation professional that they may follow the nine requirements set forth at N.J.S.A. 58:10B-1.3b. The goal of this program is to speed up and increase the pace of remediation, thus helping to decrease the threat of future contamination.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/ )〕 A solid and hazardous waste management program is responsible for conducting educational and public relations campaigns on behalf of recycling, although its activities have been reduced since funding cuts in the mid-1990s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dshw/ )〕 The Division of Parks and Forestry protects state and private lands from wildfire, manages the forests, educates the public, grows trees to maintain and restore forests in rural and urban areas, and preserves the diversity of the trees within the forests.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/ )〕 The Division of Fish and Wildlife works towards protecting and managing the state's fish and wildlife resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/about.htm )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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