The New Jersey Appellate Court reversed NJDEP’s denial of Appellant’s request to receive a Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund Innocent Party Grant (innocent party grant) to pay for remediation of Appellant’s Hanover Township property under the Brownfield and Contaminated Site Remediation Act (Brownfield Act). The innocent party grant pays for remediation of contaminated sites if the site owner did not discharge or use any hazardous waste on the site and if the owner “[

After 15 years on the Superfund list, the “Oil Lake” Superfund Site located at the Meadowlands in Kearny, NJ received approval for a $24 million EPA cleanup plan exclusively centered on the removal of polluted soil. The plan does not address the contaminated groundwater onsite. According to the EPA, from 1946 to 1979, the Diamond Head Oil Refinery contaminated the site with PCBs, dioxins and VOCs when it routinely “dumped oil into storage pits, onto adjacent properties and in