PRINTER'S NO. 2590
No. 2024 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY BUSH, BOYES, NOYE, HAYES, FARGO, KOSINSKI,
SCHULER, G. SNYDER, CARLSON, RAYMOND, GLADECK, FOX, McCALL,
GAMBLE, ARGALL, KUKOVICH, BUNT, TIGUE, DISTLER, CHADWICK,
JACKSON, STABACK, CIVERA, MORRIS, BELARDI, TRELLO, GRUPPO,
SIRIANNI, KASUNIC, J. TAYLOR, MERRY, PETRARCA, FLICK AND
ANGSTADT, DECEMBER 1, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, DECEMBER 1, 1987
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," requiring
18 public hearings in municipalities prior to the issuance of
19 any permit.
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, 1980
23 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, is
24 amended to read:
1 Section 502. Permit and license application requirements.
2 * * *
3 (g) (1) The department, upon receipt of an application for
4 a permit, shall give written notice to each and every
5 municipality in which the proposed hazardous waste facility
6 will be located.
7 (2) In addition to any other requirements, the
8 department shall, at least 30 days prior to the approval of
9 an application for any permit, hold at least one public
10 hearing in the municipality where the waste is to be
11 disposed.
12 Section 2. This act shall apply to all applications pending
13 or submitted on or after the effective date of this act.
14 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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