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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BAKER, ERICKSON, FARNESE, FOLMER, MUSTO, O'PAKE, RAFFERTY, WASHINGTON, D. WHITE, DINNIMAN, TOMLINSON AND BOSCOLA, JULY 30, 2010 |
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| REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JULY 30, 2010 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), entitled, |
2 | as amended, "An act to preserve and improve the purity of the |
3 | waters of the Commonwealth for the protection of public |
4 | health, animal and aquatic life, and for industrial |
5 | consumption, and recreation; empowering and directing the |
6 | creation of indebtedness or the issuing of non-debt revenue |
7 | bonds by political subdivisions to provide works to abate |
8 | pollution; providing protection of water supply and water |
9 | quality; providing for the jurisdiction of courts in the |
10 | enforcement thereof; providing additional remedies for |
11 | abating pollution of waters; imposing certain penalties; |
12 | repealing certain acts; regulating discharges of sewage and |
13 | industrial wastes; regulating the operation of mines and |
14 | regulating the impact of mining upon water quality, supply |
15 | and quantity; placing responsibilities upon landowners and |
16 | land occupiers and to maintain primary jurisdiction over |
17 | surface coal mining in Pennsylvania," further providing for |
18 | industrial wastes discharge. |
19 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
20 | hereby enacts as follows: |
21 | Section 1. Section 301 of the act of June 22, 1937 |
22 | (P.L.1987, No.394), known as The Clean Streams Law, amended July |
23 | 31, 1970 (P.L.653, No.222), is amended to read: |
24 | Section 301. Prohibition Against Discharge of Industrial |
25 | Wastes.--No person or municipality shall place or permit to be |
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1 | placed, or discharged or permit to flow, or continue to |
2 | discharge or permit to flow, into any of the waters of the |
3 | Commonwealth any industrial wastes, except as hereinafter |
4 | provided in this act. The department shall ensure that any |
5 | facility which seeks to treat and discharge industrial |
6 | wastewater originating from oil and gas activities into waters |
7 | of this Commonwealth is operated by a competent and qualified |
8 | individual. The Environmental Quality Board shall have the |
9 | authority to promulgate regulations regarding the qualifications |
10 | necessary to operate a facility which treats and discharges |
11 | industrial wastewater originating from oil and gas activities. |
12 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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