PRINTER'S NO. 1612
No. 1295 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, FISHER, REIBMAN, BELAN, PORTERFIELD AND
STEWART, OCTOBER 16, 1989
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, OCTOBER 16, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 powers and duties of the Department of Environmental
22 Resources.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 1904-A of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
27 amended by adding a clause to read:
1 Section 1904-A. Waters.--The Department of Environmental
2 Resources shall have the power and its duty shall be:
3 * * *
4 (6.1) To develop, using the inventory maintained pursuant to
5 clause (6), a listing of all water reservoirs in the
6 Commonwealth and a comprehensive Statewide plan to make maximum
7 use of existing reservoirs in times of drought. The plan shall
8 provide for the utilization of regional resources and for
9 appropriate cooperative efforts among Federal, State and local
10 authorities. The Department of Environmental Resources shall
11 also determine the need within the Commonwealth for new
12 reservoirs or alternatives to reservoirs and the cost of
13 constructing the new reservoirs or alternatives. The Department
14 of Environmental Resources shall present the plan and other
15 information required to be gathered under this clause to the
16 General Assembly within one (1) year of the effective date of
17 this clause;
18 * * *
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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