PRINTER'S NO. 2123
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1377
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY VOGEL, RESCHENTHALER, SCARNATI, BARTOLOTTA,
HUTCHINSON, VULAKOVICH, MENSCH AND WHITE, OCTOBER 12, 2016
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, OCTOBER 12, 2016
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
Environmental Resources to adopt rules, regulations,
standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," in general
provisions, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "processing" and "residual
waste" in section 103 of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380,
No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, amended July
11, 1990 (P.L.450, No.109), are amended to read:
Section 103. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
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have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings given to them in this section:
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"Processing."
(1) The term includes any of the following:
(i) Any method or technology used for the purpose of
reducing the volume or bulk of municipal or residual
waste or any method or technology used to convert part or
all of such waste materials for off-site reuse.
(ii) Transfer facilities, composting facilities, and
resource recovery facilities.
(2) The term does not include [a] any of the following:
(i) A collection or processing center that is only
for source-separated recyclable materials, including
clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and
bimetallic cans, high-grade office paper, newsprint,
corrugated paper and plastics.
(ii) Sizing, shaping or sorting of discarded
material.
"Residual waste."
(1) The term includes any of the following:
(i) Any garbage, refuse, other discarded material or
other waste including solid, liquid, semisolid, or
contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial,
mining and agricultural operations [and any].
(ii) Any sludge from an industrial, mining or
agricultural water supply treatment facility, waste water
treatment facility or air pollution control facility,
provided that it is not hazardous.
(2) The term ["residual waste" shall] does not include
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[coal]:
(i) Coal refuse as defined in the "Coal Refuse
Disposal Control Act." ["Residual waste" shall not
include treatment]
(ii) Treatment sludges from coal mine drainage
treatment plants, disposal of which is being carried on
pursuant to and in compliance with a valid permit issued
pursuant to "The Clean Streams Law."
(iii) Iron and steel slag if:
(A) used onsite as a waste processing liming
agent in acid neutralization or onsite in place of
aggregate or sold and distributed in the stream of
commerce for consumption, use or further processing
into another desired commodity; and
(B) managed as an item of commercial value in
accordance with industry practices to ensure
commercial value.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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