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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 770.5. Powers and duties of the Environmental Quality Board

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(a) Rules and regulations.--The board   1 shall have the power and duty to adopt rules and regulations to accomplish the purposes of this act.

(b) Standards.--The board may promulgate regulations establishing analytical standards for sewage system cleaners and additives.

(c) Prohibition or restriction of product.--When the board finds, after investigation by the department and any public hearings which the board deems necessary, that any ingredient, in addition to a restricted chemical material, in a sewage system cleaner or additive distributed, sold, offered or exposed for sale in this Commonwealth will have an adverse affect   2 on human health or the environment, it shall by regulation prohibit or restrict the sale, distribution, offer or exposure for sale or use by any person of sewage system cleaners or additives containing the ingredient.

(d) Authorization after investigation or hearing.--Whenever the board finds, after investigation by the department and any public hearings which the board deems necessary, that any restricted chemical material will not have any adverse affect   2 on human health or the environment when used as a sewage system cleaner or additive, it may authorize the use of the chemical material in the products, notwithstanding any provisions of this act to the contrary.

(e) Confidential information.--The board and the department shall hold confidential any information obtained pursuant to section 6 when shown by any manufacturer that such information, if made public, would divulge confidential business information, methods or processes entitled to protection as trade secrets of the manufacturer.

1  See 71 P.S. § 1340.502 for powers and duties of the Environmental Quality Board transferred to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
2  So in enrolled bill;  probably should be “effect”.

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