A02436
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
144
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY YAW, BARTOLOTTA, VOGEL, YUDICHAK, SCHWANK, FOLMER,
RAFFERTY, SCARNATI AND HUTCHINSON, JANUARY 19, 2017
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JANUARY 19, 2017
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 of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965
P.L.1535, No.537), known as the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities
Act, is amended by adding a subsection subsections to read:
Section 5. Official Plans.--* * *
(c.1) When proposing a plan supplement or plan revision for
a new land development, the applicant may submit and the
department shall accept, for the purpose of satisfying general
site suitability requirements, any conventional or alternate on-
lot system permittable by a sewage enforcement officer.
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(c.2) (1) Within 180 days of the effective date of this
subsection, the department shall, in consultation with the
Sewage Advisory Committee, develop scientific, technical and
field testing standards upon which an evaluation of each onlot
sewage system that has been classified as an alternate system in
accordance with 25 Pa. Code ยง 73.72 (relating to alternate
sewage systems) shall be based.
(2) The department shall, in consultation with the Sewage
Advisory Committee, review the scientific, technical and field
testing data for each individual onlot sewage system and each
community onlot sewage system that is classified as an alternate
onlot sewage system.
(3) If, based on the review specified in paragraph (2), the
department determines that there is sufficient scientific,
technical and field testing data to reclassify an alternate
system as a conventional system, the department shall reclassify
the alternate system as a conventional system.
(4) If, based on the review specified in paragraph (2), the
department determines that there is insufficient or inadequate
scientific, technical or field testing data to continue
classifying the onlot sewage system as an alternate system, the
department may undertake a rulemaking to remove the system ' s
classification as an alternate system.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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