NL Industries, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WEFING, P.J.A.D.

NL Industries, Inc. (“NL”) filed a verified complaint seeking a declaratory judgment that N.J.S.A. 58:10B-3.1 did not authorize defendant New Jersey Department of Environmental Protectidn (“DEP”) to remove or replace NL as the party performing certain environmental remediation on property located in Sayreville and previously owned by NL. Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Authority (“SERA”), who had obtained title to the property through eminent domain, intervened in the declaratory judgment *130action. The trial court eventually entered…