PRINTER'S NO. 512
No. 470 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY JAROLIN, FEE, STISH, KOSINSKI, REBER, TRELLO,
CAWLEY, NOYE, OLIVER, CIVERA, BELARDI, PETRARCA, SALOOM AND
HOWLETT, FEBRUARY 14, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, FEBRUARY 14, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
2 act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
3 storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
4 and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
5 municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
6 authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
7 the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
8 requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
9 waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
10 facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
11 waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
12 granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
13 Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
14 Environmental Resources to adopt rules, regulations,
15 standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
16 duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
17 prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," further
18 providing for granting, renewing, modifying, revoking and
19 suspending permits and licenses.
20 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21 hereby enacts as follows:
22 Section 1. Section 503 of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380,
23 No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by
24 adding a subsection to read:
25 Section 503. Granting, denying, renewing, modifying, revoking
26 and suspending permits and licenses.
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2 (f) At least six months before modifying, revoking or
3 suspending a permit for the operation of a solid waste storage,
4 treatment, processing or disposal facility or area that handles
5 municipal waste, the department shall give actual and
6 constructive notice to the permittee, the municipalities using
7 the facility or area and the governing body of the county in
8 which the facility or area is located. Actual notice must be by
9 certified mail, return receipt requested. Constructive notice
10 must be by publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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