PRINTER'S NO. 866
No. 781 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY MAYERNIK, PESCI, WOZNIAK, FAIRCHILD, TRELLO,
LAUGHLIN, McCALL AND PISTELLA, FEBRUARY 14, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
FEBRUARY 14, 1995
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 disposal of hazardous waste.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Section 403 of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380,
22 No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by
23 adding a subsection to read:
24 Section 403. Generation, transportation, storage, treatment and
25 disposal of hazardous waste.
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2 (d) No identified or listed hazardous waste shall be
3 disposed of by incineration in a cement kiln.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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