PRINTER'S NO. 463
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
513
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY McGARRIGLE, PILEGGI, YUDICHAK, WOZNIAK, HUTCHINSON
AND WAGNER, FEBRUARY 19, 2015
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
FEBRUARY 19, 2015
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 residual
waste, further providing for transportation of residual
waste; and abrogating a regulation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 303 of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380,
No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by
adding subsections to read:
Section 303. Transportation of residual waste.
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(c) The department may not prohibit the vehicular
transportation of leachate discharged from a collection and
handling system of a landfill to an offsite facility for the
treatment of the leachate.
(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
"Leachate" means a s defined in 25 Pa. Code § 271.1 (relating to
definitions).
Section 2. The regulations of the Department of
Environmental Protection in 25 Pa. Code § 273.273(a), (b)(1),
(2) and (3) and (e) (relating to leachate transportation) are
abrogated.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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