A01565
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1302
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY MAKO AND FREEMAN, APRIL 29, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
APRIL 29, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled, as
amended, "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 Protection 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 powers and duties
of the department.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 104(17) and (18) of the act of July 7,
1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act,
are amended and the section is amended by adding paragraphs to
read:
Section 104. Powers and duties of the department.
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