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Mission:
- advise Township Boards on a variety of environmental issues;
- inform and advise municiple planning boards of adjustment about environmental impacts of proposals for development;
- advocate planned open space preservation at the municipal level;
- investigate environmental and natural resource issues for the governing body and recommend solutions;
- inform residents on environmental matters and ways to help protect the environment;
- interact with neighboring commissions and other organizations to tackle regional and state problems;
- develop and maintain an inventory of the environmental resources and land use constraints of the municipality; and
- help explain to other local officials and residents the programs and regulations of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and communicate local concerns to the NJDEP.
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