PRINTER'S NO. 3861
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2343
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY EVANKOVICH, SACCONE, SAYLOR, ROTHMAN, PICKETT,
SIMMONS, GIBBONS, MILLARD, REESE, WARD, WHEELAND, SANKEY,
GABLER, WARNER, BARBIN, MATZIE, PETRARCA, SNYDER, McGINNIS,
P. DALEY, HARHAI, OBERLANDER AND ZIMMERMAN,
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
Environmental Resources to adopt rules, regulations,
standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," in general
provisions, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "processing" and "residual
waste" in section 103 of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380,
No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, amended July
11, 1990 (P.L.450, No.109), are amended to read:
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