PRINTER'S NO. 614
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
55
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ZIMMERMAN, STAMBAUGH, RYAN, ROWE, CAUSER, ROTHMAN,
GREINER, SCHLEGEL CULVER, MILLARD, COX, HAMM, GROVE, JAMES,
MIZGORSKI, JONES, KEEFER, HENNESSEY, KAUFFMAN, JOZWIAK AND
WHEELAND, FEBRUARY 24, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
A RESOLUTION
Urging the Congress of the United States, the President of the
United States and the Environmental Protection Agency to
delay the requirements of the MS4 storm water management
program for a period of two years in response to the COVID-19
crisis.
WHEREAS, The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (62 Stat.
1155, 33 U.S.C. ยง 1251 et seq.) allows the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate water pollution through the
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System by requiring
regulated municipalities and other entities to create storm
water management plans and obtain permits for discharges of
storm water from their municipal separate storm sewer systems
(MS4s); and
WHEREAS, In seeking to comply with this mandate from the EPA
as enforced by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection, municipalities in this Commonwealth have
increasingly begun placing tremendous economic burdens on our
residents, businesses and property owners by imposing new or
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