PRINTER'S NO. 2090
No. 1555 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY MELLOW AND MUSTO, APRIL 4, 1990
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, APRIL 4, 1990
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," further
18 providing for the definition of "processing" and providing
19 for the definition of "transfer facility."
20 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21 hereby enacts as follows:
22 Section 1. The definition of "processing" in section 103 of
23 the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid
24 Waste Management Act, is amended and the section is amended by
25 adding a definition to read:
26 Section 103. Definitions.
1 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
2 have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
3 meanings given to them in this section:
4 * * *
5 "Processing." [Any technology used for the purpose of
6 reducing the volume or bulk of municipal or residual waste or
7 any technology used to convert part or all of such waste
8 materials for off-site reuse. Processing facilities include but
9 are not limited to transfer facilities, composting facilities,
10 and resource recovery facilities.] Any of the following:
11 (1) the use of any method or technology for the purpose
12 of reducing the bulk or volume of municipal or residual
13 waste, storage of municipal or residual waste at a location
14 other than the generation site, or the use of any method or
15 technology to convert or segregate part or all of such waste
16 materials for reuse or recycling. Processing facilities
17 include but are not limited to transfer facilities,
18 composting facilities, recycling facilities and resource
19 recovery facilities; or
20 (2) operation of any kind of transfer facility,
21 composting facility, recycling facility or resource recovery
22 facility.
23 * * *
24 "Transfer facility." A facility which receives and processes
25 or temporarily stores municipal or residual waste at a location
26 other than the generation site, and which facilitates the
27 transportation or transfer of municipal or residual waste to a
28 processing or disposal facility. A transfer facility may include
29 a facility that is also a recycling facility.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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