THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY PETRI, HARHART, HESS, MOUL, MURT, RAPP, SWANGER, WATSON AND WHITE, FEBRUARY 8, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1535, No.537),

entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the planning and

regulation of community sewage systems and individual sewage

systems; requiring municipalities to submit plans for systems

in their jurisdiction; authorizing grants; requiring permits

for persons installing such systems; requiring disclosure

statements in certain land sale contracts; authorizing the

Department of Environmental Resources to adopt and administer

rules, regulations, standards and procedures; creating an

advisory committee; providing remedies and prescribing

penalties," further providing for official plans.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 5(a) of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965

P.L.1535, No.537), known as the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities

Act, amended December 14, 1994 (P.L.1250, No.149), is amended to

read:

Section 5.  Official Plans.--(a)  (1)  Each municipality

shall submit to the department an officially adopted plan for

sewage services for areas within its jurisdiction within such

reasonable period as the department may prescribe, and shall

from time to time submit revisions of such plan as may be

required by rules and regulations adopted hereunder or by order

of the department: Provided, however, That a municipality may at

any time initiate and submit to the department revisions of the

said plan. Revisions shall conform to the requirements of

subsection (d) of this section and the rules and regulations of

the department.

(2)  Each municipality shall, at least thirty days prior to

holding the required public hearing considering revisions to the

municipality's plan for sewage services to the department,

notify in writing each property owner in areas where community

sewage systems are planned to be available within a ten-year

period. This notification shall include information as

appropriate that describes any requirements for a property owner

not part of a community sewage system to connect to such system.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.