Dear Mayor:

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson has issued an administrative order that establishes a 19-member task force to conduct a comprehensive review of the DEP's permitting programs and, within 120 days, to prepare a report on its findings and make recommendations for improvements. Chairing the task force is Christopher Daggett, who served as DEP Commissioner from September 1988 to December 1989.

The League would like your input on this subject, so that we can present the municipal point of view to the Task Force.  For more information on the task force, its members, and to review the Administrative Order in which Commissioner Jackson established the Task Force, please go to http://www.state.nj.us/dep/newsrel/2008/08_0019.htm

                                                                        Very truly yours,

                                                                        William G. Dressel, Jr.
                                                                        Executive Director