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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 6019.3. Permitting process

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Compliance with plan.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the issuance of any permit under the act of January 8, 1960 (1959 P.L. 2119, No. 787),  1 known as the Air Pollution Control Act, or the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L. 380, No. 97),  2 known as the Solid Waste Management Act, for the construction or operation of any commercial facility for the incineration or disposal of infectious or chemotherapeutic wastes by the Department of Environmental Resources  3 shall take place only after the adoption of and shall be consistent with the Pennsylvania Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Wastes Plan.

(b) Interim permits.--After the effective date of this act and prior to the adoption of a plan by the Environmental Quality Board as provided for in section 4, the Department of Environmental Resources shall have the authority to issue or reissue any required permit or permits for the following purposes:

(1) The operation of any facility for the incineration of infectious or chemotherapeutic wastes, provided that the facility for which the permit or permits are issued or reissued was in existence and had been in operation on or before the effective date of this act or that the facility for which the permit or permits are issued or reissued is or will be an onsite facility managing wastes generated by that facility.

(2) An onsite incineration facility for infectious or chemotherapeutic wastes for which permits deemed complete by the department have been filed on the effective date of this act.

1 35 P.S. § 4001 et seq.
2 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq.
3 Now Department of Environmental Protection. See 71 P.S. § 1340.501.
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