PRINTER'S NO. 1012
No. 832 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, MUSTO, RHOADES, KUKOVICH, WAGNER, COSTA,
TARTAGLIONE, KITCHEN AND PUNT, JUNE 24, 2003
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JUNE 24, 2003
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 the municipal regulation of land application of
19 sewage sludge.
20 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21 hereby enacts as follows:
22 Section 1. The act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known
23 as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by adding an
24 article to read:
25 ARTICLE V-A
26 MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF LAND APPLICATION OF SEWAGE SLUDGE
1 Section 501-A. Grant of power.
2 (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), a
3 municipality shall have the power to adopt and enforce
4 ordinances regulating the land application of sewage sludge.
5 (b) Exception.--A municipal ordinance regulating the land
6 application of sewage sludge must at least be as stringent as,
7 and as consistent as possible with, the requirements of this act
8 and the regulations promulgated under this act.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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