PRINTER'S NO. 741
No. 695 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, KITCHEN AND WASHINGTON, MARCH 26, 2007
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 26, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 28, 1995 (P.L.89, No.18), entitled "An
2 act creating the Department of Conservation and Natural
3 Resources consisting of certain functions of the Department
4 of Environmental Resources and the Department of Community
5 Affairs; renaming the Department of Environmental Resources
6 as the Department of Environmental Protection; defining the
7 role of the Environmental Quality Board in the Department of
8 Environmental Protection; making changes to responsibilities
9 of the State Conservation Commission and the Department of
10 Agriculture; transferring certain powers and duties to the
11 Department of Health; and repealing inconsistent acts,"
12 further providing for ecological and geological services.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 305(a) of the act of June 28, 1995
16 (P.L.89, No.18), known as the Conservation and Natural Resources
17 Act, is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
18 Section 305. Ecological and geological services.
19 (a) Powers and duties enumerated.--The department shall have
20 the power and its duty shall be with respect to the study and
21 protection of the Commonwealth's ecological and geological
22 resources:
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1 (11) To investigate and disclose the exact location of
2 the geographic center of this Commonwealth and erect a marker
3 or monument on the site.
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5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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