PRINTER'S NO. 3018
No. 2403 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, DECEMBER 15, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, DECEMBER 15, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for the imposition of pollution abatement
3 surcharges on licenses and permits.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Chapter 5 of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
8 CHAPTER 5
9 FISCAL AFFAIRS
10 * * *
11 SUBCHAPTER D
12 SURCHARGES
13 Sec.
14 541. Pollution abatement surcharges.
15 § 541. Pollution abatement surcharges.
16 (a) Surcharges imposed.--In order to prevent injury to fish
17 and aquatic life and to protect the comfort and convenience of
18 the public in the use of water resources of this Commonwealth, a
1 pollution abatement surcharge is hereby imposed upon all
2 licenses and permits issued under sections 2701 (relating to
3 resident fishing licenses), 2702 (relating to nonresident and
4 tourist licenses), 2901 (relating to eel chute licenses), 2902
5 (relating to net permits), 2903 (relating to boat and net
6 licenses for boundary lakes), 2904 (relating to permits for
7 protection and management of particular fish), 2905 (relating to
8 permits for fish collecting activities), 2906 (relating to
9 permits for use of explosives), 5104 (relating to fees) and 7309
10 (relating to license fees) as follows:
11 (1) For licenses for which a fee of up to and including
12 $15 is charged, a pollution abatement surcharge of 50¢ shall
13 be collected by the commission.
14 (2) For licenses for which a fee exceeding $15 is
15 charged, a pollution abatement surcharge of $1 shall be
16 collected by the commission.
17 (b) Deposit and allocation of surcharge revenue.--All
18 surcharges collected under subsection (a) shall be deposited
19 into the Fish Fund or the Boat Fund and shall be transferred
20 quarterly into the Land and Water Development Sinking Fund
21 established in section 9 of the act of January 19, 1968 (1967
22 P.L.996, No.443), known as The Land and Water Conservation and
23 Reclamation Act. The surcharge revenues which are deposited into
24 the Land and Water Development Sinking Fund are hereby
25 appropriated to the Department of Environmental Resources to be
26 used only for the prevention, control and elimination of
27 pollution from mine drainage and the restoration of abandoned
28 mine lands.
29 Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 1994.
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