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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 4002

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2679 Session of 2004


        INTRODUCED BY McNAUGHTON, BALDWIN, BELFANTI, GOODMAN, LAUGHLIN,
           McILHATTAN, SATHER, SOLOBAY, TANGRETTI, E. Z. TAYLOR,
           WASHINGTON AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 8, 2004

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
           JUNE 8, 2004

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for disposal fee for
     3     municipal waste landfills.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6301 of Title 27 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 6301.  Disposal fee for municipal waste landfills.
     9     (a)  Imposition.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection
    10  (b), each operator of a municipal waste landfill shall pay, in
    11  the same manner prescribed in Chapter 7 of the act of July 27,
    12  1988 (P.L.556, No.101), known as the Municipal Waste Planning,
    13  Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, a disposal fee of [$4] $23
    14  per ton for all solid waste disposed of at the municipal waste
    15  landfill. The fee established in this section shall apply to
    16  process residue and nonprocessible waste from a resource
    17  recovery facility that is disposed of at the municipal waste


     1  landfill and is in addition to the fee established in section
     2  701 of the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste
     3  Reduction Act.
     4     (b)  Exceptions.--The fee established under this section
     5  shall not apply to the following:
     6         (1)  Process residue and nonprocessible waste that is
     7     permitted for beneficial use or for use as alternate daily
     8     cover at a municipal waste landfill.
     9         (2)  Solid waste from a hazardous waste treatment
    10     facility that is converted into nonhazardous waste and
    11     disposed of at a municipal waste landfill.
    12     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.












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