PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 762
PRINTER'S NO. 857
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
619
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY YAW, MENSCH, HUTCHINSON, DINNIMAN, SCARNATI,
K. WARD, MARTIN, BARTOLOTTA, J. WARD AND REGAN, MAY 10, 2019
SENATOR YAW, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, AS AMENDED,
JUNE 4, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), entitled
"An act to preserve and improve the purity of the waters of
the Commonwealth for the protection of public health, animal
and aquatic life, and for industrial consumption, and
recreation; empowering and directing the creation of
indebtedness or the issuing of non-debt revenue bonds by
political subdivisions to provide works to abate pollution;
providing protection of water supply and water quality;
providing for the jurisdiction of courts in the enforcement
thereof; providing additional remedies for abating pollution
of waters; imposing certain penalties; repealing certain
acts; regulating discharges of sewage and industrial wastes;
regulating the operation of mines and regulating the impact
of mining upon water quality, supply and quantity; placing
responsibilities upon landowners and land occupiers and to
maintain primary jurisdiction over surface coal mining in
Pennsylvania," in general provisions and public policy,
further providing for definitions; and, in other pollutions
and potential pollution, providing for notice of discharge
endangering health or the environment.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "pollution" in section 1 of the
act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known as The Clean
Streams Law, is amended to read:
Section 1. Definitions.--Be it enacted, &c., That the
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