Pennsylvania HB 665: An Act amending the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L.31, No.21), known as the Human Services Code, in public assistance, further providing for persons eligible for medical assistance.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 672
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 665
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, WAXMAN, PIELLI, HILL-EVANS, KHAN,
McNEILL, HANBIDGE, OTTEN, SANCHEZ, RABB, BRENNAN, HOWARD AND
DONAHUE, FEBRUARY 20, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
PROTECTION, FEBRUARY 20, 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; in residual
waste, further providing for disposal, processing and storage
of residual waste and providing for exempt special wastes;
and making an editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "drill cuttings" and "solid
waste" 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
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the section is amended by adding a definition 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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"Drill cuttings." Rock cuttings and related mineral residues
created during the drilling of wells pursuant to [the act of
December 19, 1984 (P.L.1140, No.223), known as the "Oil and Gas
Act,"] 58 Pa.C.S. (relating to oil and gas) provided such
materials are disposed of at the well site and pursuant to
[section 206 of the "Oil and Gas Act."] 58 Pa.C.S. § 3216
(relating to well site restoration).
"Exempt special waste." A solid waste excluded as a
hazardous waste under 40 CFR 261.4(b)(5) (relating to
exclusions).
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"Solid waste." Any waste, including but not limited to,
municipal, residual or hazardous wastes, including solid,
liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous materials. The term does
not include any of the following:
(1) Coal ash.
(2) Drill cuttings, except for drill cuttings from
geologic formations that contain oil or gas deposits.
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Section 2. Section 302(b) of the act is amended by adding
paragraphs and the section is amended by adding subsections to
read:
Section 302. Disposal, processing and storage of residual
waste.
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(b) It shall be unlawful for any person or municipality who
stores, processes, or disposes of residual waste to fail to:
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(4) Test leachate prior to discharge for the presence of
all of the following in accordance with National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System requirements:
(i) Chloride.
(ii) Bromide.
(iii) Sulfate.
(iv) Nitrate.
(5) Test leachate prior to discharge for hazardous
characteristics in accordance with requirements under 40 CFR
Pt. 261 Subpt. C (relating to characteristics of hazardous
waste), including:
(i) Toxicity.
(ii) Corrosivity.
(iii) Ignitability.
(iv) Reactivity.
(6) Test leachate prior to discharge, in accordance with
best practice standards through gamma-ray spectrometry using
high-purity germanium and lithium-drifted germanium
detectors and any of their successor technologies, as
specified in 40 CFR 141.25(a) (relating to analytical methods
for radioactivity), for the presence of all of the following
naturally occurring radionuclides:
(i) Uranium and its decay products.
(ii) Thorium and its decay products.
(iii) Radium and its decay products.
(iv) Potassium-40.
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(v) Lead-210/Polonium-210.
(c) In accordance with the standards specified in subsection
(b)(4), (5) and (6):
(1) A facility shall test municipal waste or residual
waste at the time that the municipal waste or residual waste
enters the facility.
(2) A facility shall test any municipal waste or
residual waste leachate prior to processing onsite or leaving
the facility.
(d) A residual waste landfill under 25 Pa. Code Ch. 288
(relating to residual waste landfills), which accepts residual
waste under this act, shall