Pennsylvania SB 763: An Act amending the act of April 27, 1966 (1st Sp.Sess., P.L.31, No.1), known as The Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act, further providing for compilation and analysis of data.

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PRINTER'S NO. 819
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 763
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY ROTHMAN, MASTRIANO, STEFANO AND J. WARD,
MAY 22, 2025
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, MAY 22, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "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 definitions and for powers
and duties of the department; in applications and permits,
further providing for permits and licenses required,
transition scheme and reporting requirements and providing
for requirements for animal processing residuals and food
processing residuals, for requirements for the storage,
transfer and transport of animal processing residuals and
food processing residuals by commercial brokers and
commercial haulers, for preemption of local ordinances and
for mitigation; abrogating regulations; and making an
editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "food processing waste," "food
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processing wastes used for agricultural purposes" and "normal
farming operations" in section 103 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 definitions to
read:
Section 103. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
meanings given to them in this section:
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"Agricultural operator." A person that has management
control of a normal farming operation.
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"Animal processing residuals." Residual materials in liquid
or solid form generated in the slaughtering, processing or
converting of poultry, livestock, fish, seafood, milk, meat or
eggs into human food or animal feed.
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"Commercial broker." A person that assumes temporary con trol
or ownership of animal processing residuals or food processing
residuals and directly or indirectly arranges for transport to
and utilization at a normal farming operation or other location.
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"Commercial hauler." A person that transports or land-
applies animal processing residuals or food processing residuals
as a contract agent for an agricultural operator or commercial
broker under the direction of the operator or broker.
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"Food processing [waste." Residual materials in liquid or
solid form generated in the slaughtering of poultry and
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livestock, or in processing and converting fish, seafood, milk,
meat, and eggs to food products; it also means residual]
residuals." Residual materials generated in the processing,
converting, or manufacturing of fruits, vegetables, crops and
other commodities into [marketable food items] human food or
animal feed.
["Food processing wastes used for agricultural purposes."
The use of food processing wastes in normal farming operations
as defined in this section.]
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"Land application system." A written, site-specific plan
that incorporates best management practices for the use, storage
and land application of animal processing res iduals or food
processing residuals.
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"Normal farming operations." The customary and generally
accepted activities, practices and procedures that farms adopt,
use, or engage in year after year in the production and
preparation for market of poultry, livestock, and their
products; and in the production, harvesting and preparation for
market of agricultural, agronomic, horticultural, silvicultural
and aquacultural crops and commodities; provided that such
operations are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, and
provided that the use or disposal of these materials will not
pollute the air, water, or other natural resources of the
Commonwealth. It includes the storage and utilization of
agricultural [and food process wastes] waste, animal processing
residuals and food processing residuals, screenings and sludges
for animal feed, a