Bill Text: PA SB664 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for permits.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-25 - Referred to ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY [SB664 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB664-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 672
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 664 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, COSTA, FONTANA, RAFFERTY, SOLOBAY, WASHINGTON AND WOZNIAK, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011
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 permits.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 7(a)(1) 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 7. Permits.--(a) (1) No person shall install,
construct, or award a contract for construction, or alter,
repair or connect to an individual sewage system or community
sewage system or construct, or request bid proposals for
construction, or install or occupy any building or structure for
which an individual sewage system or community sewage system is
to be installed without first obtaining a permit indicating that
the site and the plans and specifications of such system are in
compliance with the provisions of this act and the standards
adopted pursuant to this act. A permit shall not be required by
a person where a new dwelling is proposed to replace a
previously existing dwelling where the size and anticipated use
of the new dwelling is the same as the previously existing
dwelling and the previously existing dwelling was in use within
one year of the anticipated date of the completion of
construction. This exception shall not apply when an active
investigation of malfunction is under way by the local agency or
the department. No permit may be issued by the local agency in
those cases where a permit from the department is required
pursuant to the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known
as "The Clean Streams Law," as amended, or where the department
pursuant to its rules and regulations, determines that such
permit is not necessary for the protection of the public health.
Except where a local agency or municipality requires a permit by
ordinance, no permit or plan revision shall be required for the
installation of an individual on-lot sewage system for a
residential structure occupied or intended to be occupied by the
property owner or a member of his immediate family on a
contiguous tract of land ten acres or more [if the owner of the
property was the owner of record as of January 10, 1987].
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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