PRINTER'S NO. 1058
No. 944 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY MIHALICH, GEORGE, COLAIZZO, FAIRCHILD, HALUSKA,
PESCI, WALKO, DALEY, KAISER, JOSEPHS, SURRA, LEDERER, MELIO,
YOUNGBLOOD, M. COHEN, TIGUE, TANGRETTI, LEVDANSKY, OLASZ,
BATTISTO, STEELMAN, ITKIN, PETRARCA, MANDERINO AND MICHLOVIC,
MARCH 18, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
MARCH 18, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
2 act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
3 storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
4 and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
5 municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
6 authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
7 the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
8 requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
9 waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
10 facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
11 waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
12 granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
13 Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
14 Environmental Resources to adopt rules, regulations,
15 standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
16 duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
17 prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," providing
18 for recycling of hydrochloric acid-based waste pickle liquor;
19 and prohibiting certain persons from accepting hydrochloric
20 acid-based waste pickle liquor for processing and disposal.
21 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
22 hereby enacts as follows:
23 Section 1. The act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known
24 as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by adding a
25 section to read:
1 Section 304. Hydrochloric acid-based waste pickle liquor
2 recycling.
3 (a) Within three years of the effective date of this
4 section, a person engaged in a manufacturing process of which
5 hydrochloric acid-based waste pickle liquor is a by-product
6 shall recycle all waste pickle liquor that is derived from
7 hydrochloric acid-based processes.
8 (b) A person may petition the Environmental Quality Board
9 for an exemption from the requirement of subsection (a). The
10 Environmental Quality Board shall review each petition and
11 conduct a hearing in accordance with 2 Pa.C.S. (relating to
12 administrative law and procedure) within 90 days of submission
13 of the petition.
14 (c) On and after three years following the effective date of
15 this section, the operator of a municipal or residual waste
16 processing or disposal facility or of a hazardous waste storage,
17 treatment or disposal facility, whether or not the facility
18 possesses a permit from the department under this act, may not
19 accept hydrochloric acid-based waste pickle liquor generated
20 within or outside this Commonwealth for storage, disposal or
21 processing, except for recycling.
22 (d) As used in this section, the term "recycle" means the
23 recovery and sale, reuse or regeneration of hydrochloric acid-
24 based waste pickle liquor which would otherwise be disposed or
25 processed as waste.
26 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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