PRINTER'S NO. 1050
No. 908 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY McCLATCHY, LAUDADIO, ZORD, KERNICK, ARTHURS,
VALICENTI, BITTLE, GOEBEL, BURD, WENGER, PITTS, POLITE,
YAHNER, POTT, SIRIANNI, O'CONNELL, NOYE, SHUMAN, KNEPPER,
CESSAR, HELFRICK, DeVERTER, COWELL, ZEARFOSS, BROWN, BRANDT,
HASKELL, FISCHER, HOPKINS, MOWERY, E. Z. TAYLOR, MILLIRON,
ABRAHAM, DORR, VROON, FREIND AND STEWART, APRIL 20, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, APRIL 20, 1977
AN ACT
1 Requiring an economic impact statement to accompany proposed
2 legislation or regulations dealing with environmental
3 protection or pollution control.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Economic impact statement required.
7 Whenever a bill or a regulation dealing with environmental
8 protection or pollution control is proposed by the General
9 Assembly or by any State department or agency or any governing
10 body or regulatory agency of a political subdivision, the
11 proposed legislation or regulation shall be accompanied by an
12 economic impact statement.
13 Section 2. Contents.
14 The economic impact statement shall include where applicable:
15 (1) The technical feasibility and economic
16 reasonableness of measuring or reducing the particular type
1 of pollution.
2 (2) The estimated time and cost to rectify the alleged
3 environmental infringement.
4 (3) The cost in lost wages or community benefits should
5 an industry be forced to cease operations or a project be
6 abandoned.
7 (4) The nature and severity of injury to, or
8 interference with the protection of the health, general
9 welfare, and physical property of the people should the
10 alleged environmental violation go unresolved.
11 (5) The existing physical conditions, the character of
12 the area involved, including the character of surrounding
13 land uses, zoning classifications, and the nature of the
14 existing air quality, or receiving body of water.
15 (6) A comparative analysis of the availability,
16 efficiency, and cost of using an alternate energy source.
17 Section 3. Effective date.
18 This act shall take effect immediately.
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