PRINTER'S NO. 2264
No. 1811 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY YANDRISEVITS, FREEMAN, SCHEETZ, MORRIS, CORRIGAN
AND HALUSKA, OCTOBER 7, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, OCTOBER 7, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
2 act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
3 storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
4 and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
5 municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
6 authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
7 the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
8 requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
9 waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
10 facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
11 waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
12 granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
13 Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
14 Environmental Resources to adopt rules, regulations,
15 standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
16 duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
17 prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," limiting the
18 number of solid waste incinerators in certain counties.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. The act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known
22 as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by adding a
23 section to read:
24 Section 503.1. Incinerator permits.
25 (a) The department shall not issue a permit for the
1 construction or operation of a solid waste incinerator in any
2 county of the third class through eighth class if another solid
3 waste incinerator is in operation in the same county.
4 (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any
5 facility which has applied for or been granted a permit by the
6 department prior to September 1, 1987.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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