PRINTER'S NO. 1094
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
938
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY EVANKOVICH, MUSTIO, MILLARD, PETRARCA, A. HARRIS,
JAMES, RYAN, SANKEY, MATZIE, SIMMONS, CUTLER, McGINNIS,
KNOWLES, WARD, ZIMMERMAN, KAUFFMAN, CAUSER, BERNSTINE,
GABLER, REESE, LONGIETTI, ORTITAY, WARNER AND DOWLING,
MARCH 23, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
MARCH 23, 2017
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 definition of "residual waste" in section 103
of the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid
Waste Management Act, is amended and the section is amended by
adding a definition to read:
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Section 103. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings given to them in this section:
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"Current generation blast furnace, iron and steel slag."
Existing and future iron and steel slag that has been generated
at an operating steel mill and has not been:
(1) Produced prior to January 1, 2007.
(2) Commingled with residual waste or hazardous waste.
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"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
[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."
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(iii) Current generation blast furnace, 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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