Bill Text: PA HB767 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for official plans.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-06 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [HB767 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB767-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 857
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 767 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BEYER, GEORGE, GINGRICH, HESS, MOUL, MURT, PERRY, REICHLEY, ROHRER, SIPTROTH, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, WANSACZ, WATSON AND WHITE, MARCH 6, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, MARCH 6, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1535, No.537),
entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the planning and
regulation of community sewage systems and individual sewage
systems; requiring municipalities to submit plans for systems
in their jurisdiction; authorizing grants; requiring permits
for persons installing such systems; requiring disclosure
statements in certain land sale contracts; authorizing the
Department of Environmental Resources to adopt and administer
rules, regulations, standards and procedures; creating an
advisory committee; providing remedies and prescribing
penalties," further providing for official plans.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5(a) of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965
P.L.1535, No.537), known as the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities
Act, amended December 14, 1994 (P.L.1250, No.149), is amended to
read:
Section 5. Official Plans.--(a) (1) Each municipality
shall submit to the department an officially adopted plan for
sewage services for areas within its jurisdiction within such
reasonable period as the department may prescribe, and shall
from time to time submit revisions of such plan as may be
required by rules and regulations adopted hereunder or by order
of the department: Provided, however, That a municipality may at
any time initiate and submit to the department revisions of the
said plan. Revisions shall conform to the requirements of
subsection (d) of this section and the rules and regulations of
the department.
(2) Each municipality shall, at least thirty days prior to
holding the required public hearing considering revisions to the
municipality's plan for sewage services to the department,
notify in writing each property owner in areas where community
sewage systems are planned to be available within a ten-year
period. This notification shall include information as
appropriate that describes any requirements for a property owner
not part of a community sewage system to connect to such system.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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