PRINTER'S NO. 2122
No. 1663 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA, SEPTEMBER 30, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, SEPTEMBER 30, 1985
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 notice of certain applications and approvals of
19 permits and licenses.
20 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21 hereby enacts as follows:
22 Section 1. Section 502(g) of the act of July 7, l980
23 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, is
24 amended to read:
25 Section 502. Permit and license application requirements.
26 * * *
1 (g) The department, upon receipt of an application for a
2 permit, shall give written notice by certified mail to each and
3 every municipality in which the proposed [hazardous waste
4 facility] solid waste storage, treatment, processing or disposal
5 facility or area will be located and shall publish notice of the
6 application in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
7 Section 2. Section 503 of the act is amended by adding a
8 subsection to read:
9 Section 503. Granting, denying, renewing, modifying, revoking
10 and suspending permits and licenses.
11 * * *
12 (f) Upon approval of any permit, the department shall give
13 written notice by certified mail to each and every municipality
14 in which the solid waste storage, treatment, processing or
15 disposal facility or area will be located. The department shall
16 publish notice of the approval of any permit in the Pennsylvania
17 Bulletin.
18 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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