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Statement to Assembly Committee Substitute, No. 2401 — Senate Commerce Committee

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Statement to Assembly Committee Substitute for Assembly, No. 2401, from the Senate Commerce Committee of the State of New Jersey, dated May 18, 2026, reporting the substitute favorably. The statement says the substitute requires each scrap metal business to reduce the likelihood of a fire by, at a minimum, installing and maintaining heat detection equipment, developing a fire safety plan, and confirming that pile height does not exceed 55 feet. It says a business with a stockpile of over 200 tons of unprepared metal is to install a remotely operated fire suppression system. It states the substitute is identical to the committee substitute for Senate Bill No. 312.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                     STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
                ASSEMBLY, No. 2401

 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                       DATED: MAY 18, 2026

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably an Assembly
Committee Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 2401.
    The committee substitute requires each scrap metal business in
the State to reduce the likelihood of a fire by, at a minimum: (1)
installing and maintaining heat detection equipment capable of
detecting an incipient fire or potential hot spots; (2) developing a
fire safety plan in coordination with the local fire department
official or fire marshal, which is to be made in writing and publicly
available upon request; (3) making available, to any fire code official
investigating the scrap metal business as a result of a fire at the
business, records retained pursuant to current law; and (4) confirming
that the pile height of combustible material, noncombustible material,
or a combination thereof does not exceed 55 feet.
    Additionally, a scrap metal business that contains an unprepared
metal shredder feedstock stockpile with over 200 tons of
unprepared metal in a single stockpile for any 24-hour period is to
install a fire suppression system that can be remotely operated and
is designed to prevent hot spots from flashing into fires by rapidly
extinguishing future fires and reflash. The system is to include, but
not be limited to: (1) an overhead fire suppression system including
water towers with articulating water supply heads and related water
supply improvements; (2) monitored heat detection equipment
around piles of at least 500 tons to identify hot spots prior to
ignition; and (3) annual certification by a fire safety engineer, the
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Division of
Fire Safety within the New Jersey Department of Community
Affairs, to meet all NFPA and State regulatory fire prevention
standards for the industrial activity.
    Under the substitute, the county enforcing agency is to review and
approve, in writing that is to be displayed in a conspicuous manner in
the office of the scrap metal business or on the Internet website of the
business, that a scrap metal business demonstrates that it installed heat
detection equipment capable of detecting an incipient fire or
potential hot spots, developed a fire safety plan in coordination with
the local fire department official or fire marshal, and, if applicable, met
the requirements for a scrap metal business that contains an
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unprepared metal shredder feedstock stockpile with over 200 tons
of unprepared metal in a single stockpile for any 24-hour period.
    As reported by the committee, the Assembly Environment and
Solid Waste Committee Substitute to Assembly Bill No. 2401 is
identical to the committee substitute for Senate Bill No. 312, which
was also reported by the committee on this date.

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