Tipping fees and waste flow database
Dear Camden County,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
1) Documentation of Camden County’s most recent tipping fee rate schedule/solid waste disposal fees.
2) Any spreadsheet or database tracking the tonnage of waste brought to each municipal waste transfer, recycling, composting, processing, or disposal facility (including landfills and incinerators) within Camden county, with fields sufficient to show the monthly tonnage (or annual if monthly is not available), waste type, and origin (state, county or municipality, in as much detail as is available) from the earliest data available in a spreadsheet or database format through the most recent data available. Also, any spreadsheets identifying each aforementioned facility with their owner, operator, address, county, municipality, permit number, facility type, and other non-confidential related information that may be stored in such a system identifying these facilities.
For purposes of this request, the term "records" means information of any kind, including, but not limited to, documents (handwritten, typed, electronic or otherwise produced, reproduced, or stored), letters, e-mails, text messages, facsimiles, memoranda, correspondence, notes, databases, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, maps, forms, minutes of meetings, electronic and magnetic recordings, and any other compilation of data from which information can be obtained, no matter the media upon which it is stored or whether communications took place on public or private electronic devices or phone or email accounts.
If the Municipality believes the records exist that are responsive to this request, but those records or portions of those records are believed to be exempt from disclosure, please identify the records that are being withheld. Please state the basis for the denial for each record being withheld including statute, regulation or court decision. Please cite that law or case, including the specific section or sections you rely upon, in your written response. In addition, please provide the nonexempt portion of the records.
If the Municipality does not possess or control these records but knows or believes that another entity does, please forward this request to the appropriate person and inform me that you have done so.
N.J.S.A.47:1A-5(d) states: "A custodian shall permit access to a government record and provide a copy thereof in the medium requested if the public agency maintains the record in that medium. If the public agency does not maintain the record in the medium requested, the custodian shall either convert the record to the medium requested or provide a copy in some other meaningful medium." Pursuant to 47:1A-5(d), please provide the records in searchable, commonly-available electronic formats, such as text or HTML formatted emails, PDF files, CSV spreadsheets, or Microsoft Office formats. Files already in any of these formats are requested to be provided in their native formats for ease of use and for minimal burden on Municipality staff. Please know that electronic records that are printed and scanned, making them unsearchable will be deemed a denial of this request and will leave the Municipality subject to legal appeal.
I ask that the fees be waived in accordance with N.J.S.A.47:1A-5(b) which states: “Access to electronic records and non-printed materials shall be provided free of charge.”
Please provide these records here. If files are unusually large, please consult me to arrange the least-cost method for transmitting the files. I will only accept paper copies of files that do not exist in readable electronic formats.
Please respond within 7 business days per N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i). Please transmit the materials to me as they become available, rather than wait for all records to become available to dispense. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact me.
Finally, please confirm receipt of this Open Public Records Act request.
Yours faithfully,
Vanessa Levy
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Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records Telephone: (856) 225 – 2131
Camden County Administration
520 Market Street, 11th Floor
Camden, NJ 08102-1375
Dear Vanessa Levy:
Thank you for submitting an Open Public Records request with Camden
County. Your request was given the reference number W019088-070921 for
tracking purposes.
Our office will forward your request to the appropriate Department for
their review and search of their files for the requested records. A
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Custodian of Records Telephone: (856) 225 – 2131
Camden County Administration
520 Market Street, 11th Floor
Camden, NJ 08102-1375
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07/12/2021
RE: OPRA REQUEST of 7/9/2021, Reference # W019088-070921
Dear Vanessa Levy,
The Camden County Custodian of Records received your Open Public Records
Act request on 7/9/2021. To access your request please click [2]here.
The records that you are requesting are created and maintained by the
Pollution Control Financing Authority of Camden County (PCFACC). The
Camden County Office of Archives and Records Management does not have
access to the requested records. You may contact the PCFACC for their
process in obtaining records. The contact information is:
Mr. Bob Iuliucci
Pollution Control Financing Authority of Camden County (PCFACC)
9600 River Road
Pennsauken Township, NJ 08110
Phone: 856-665-8787
Email: [3][email address]
As such, this letter constitutes completion of your request.
OPRA defines a government record as: “… any paper, written or printed
book, document, drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed
or image processed document, information stored or maintained
electronically or by sound-recording or in a similar device, or any copy
thereof, that has been made, maintained or kept on file … or that has been
received in the course of his or its official business …” (Emphasis
added.) N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1.Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A -1.1 et seq.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1, et seq. if your request for access to a
government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven (7)
business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the decision
by the County of Camden to deny access. As provided by law, you have the
right to either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey
or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by
completing their Denial of Access Complaint Form located at the GRC’s
website at [4]www.state.nj.us/grc.
You may contact the GRC by toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at
P.O. Box 819, Trenton, NJ, 08625, by e-mail at [5][email address]. The
GRC can also answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding
complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Superior
Court.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Custodian of Records at
(856) 225-2131.
Sincerely,
Steffani Lon for
Maria Efstratiades
Maria Efstratiades
Custodian of Records
Camden County
Office of Archives & Records Management
Courthouse, 11th Floor
520 Market Street
Camden, NJ 08102-1375
Phone: (856) 225-2131
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