NJ's controversial Route 92 highway project in South Brunswick has become a political hot potato that federal and state agencies refuse to endorse or to kill off.

According to the Home News Tribune, the plan is presently stalled in the hands of the Army Corps of Engineers because the Corps wants the NJ DEP and US EPA to get off the fence before it spends a lot of time on additional review of the project.

Though Governor Whitman wants the road, NJ DEP has repeatedly refused to take a stance on it, neglecting to send in its portion of the roadway application to the Army Corps for review.

Furthermore, the Corps says that the EPA has the power to reject the project, and because the EPA has raised objections to the project twice, Corps wants the EPA to get it over with before the Corps spends time and money reviewing it.

Jurisdiction over the project's wetlands permit passed from DEP to the Corps last month because DEP didn't make a decision to kill or go forward with the project.

Many regional and national environmental organizations and a variety of town governments and citizens groups in the vicinity of the proposed highway strongly oppose it. The township of Montgomery recently passed a strongly-worded resolution against the road.