PRINTER'S NO. 752
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
702
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MURT AND CALTAGIRONE, MARCH 3, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
MARCH 3, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in disposal fee, further providing for
disposal fee for municipal waste landfills and for deposit of
disposal fee; repealing provisions relating to allocation for
Environmental Stewardship Fund; and establishing the
Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Waiting List Account.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 6301(a) and 6302 of Title 27 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
§ 6301. Disposal fee for municipal waste landfills.
(a) Imposition.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(b), each operator of a municipal waste landfill shall pay, in
the same manner prescribed in Chapter 7 of the act of July 28,
1988 (P.L.556, No.101), known as the Municipal Waste Planning,
Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, a disposal fee of [$4] $7 per
ton for all solid waste disposed of at the municipal waste
landfill. The fee established in this section shall apply to
process residue and nonprocessible waste from a resource
recovery facility that is disposed of at the municipal waste
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landfill and is in addition to the fee established in section
701 of the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste
Reduction Act. The fee established by this subsection shall not
be subject to the provisions of section 701(d) of the Municipal
Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act.
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§ 6302. Deposit of disposal fee.
[(1) For the fiscal year 2002-2003, fees received by the
department pursuant to section 6301 (relating to disposal fee
for municipal waste landfills) shall be paid into the State
Treasury as follows:
(i) The first $50,000,000 in fees collected shall be
deposited into the Environmental Stewardship Fund
established in Chapter 61 (relating to environmental
stewardship and watershed protection).
(ii) Any fees collected thereafter shall be
deposited in the General Fund.]
Each fee collected under this chapter shall be deposited as
follows:
(1.1) Three dollars of the fee shall be deposited into
the Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Waiting List Account
established in section 6307 (relating to Intellectual
Disabilities and Autism Waiting List Account).
(2) [For the fiscal year 2003-2004 and beyond, all fees
collected] Four dollars of the fee shall be deposited into
the Environmental Stewardship Fund established in Chapter 61
(relating to environmental stewardship and watershed
protection).
Section 2. Section 6305 of Title 27 is repealed:
[§ 6305. Allocation for Environmental Stewardship Fund.
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For fiscal years 2002-2003 through 2006-2007, the department
shall utilize 10% of the money allocated annually to it under
section 6104(d) (relating to fund) to provide grants for safe
drinking water projects and wastewater treatment projects.
Grants under this section shall be made for the same purposes
and shall be subject to the same limitations as grants
authorized in section 6110 (relating to environmental
infrastructure grants to water and wastewater treatment
facilities).]
Section 3. Title 27 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 6307. Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Waiting List
Account.
(a) Establishment.--The Intellectual Disabilities and Autism
Waiting List Account is established as a restricted account
within the General Fund.
(b) Use of account.--
(1) The money in the account is appropriated, upon
approval of the Governor, to the Department of Human Services
for the purpose of consumer-centered planning.
(2) Any money remaining in the account after expenditure
for the purpose specified in paragraph (1) may be used for
one-time costs associated with the community intellectual
disabilities and autism services system.
(3) The money in the account may not be used to supplant
resources for existing community resources.
Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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