Bill Text: PA HB1741 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for definitions; and providing for hydraulic fracturing wastewater transportation.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-25 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB1741 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1741-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2220
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1741 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY MUNDY, BRIGGS, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GEORGE, HORNAMAN, MIRABITO, MULLERY, MURPHY, M. O'BRIEN, PASHINSKI, READSHAW, SANTARSIERO, STABACK, STURLA, WAGNER AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 25, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 25, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for definitions; and providing
for hydraulic fracturing wastewater transportation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definition of "hazardous material" in section
102 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is
amended and the section is amended by adding a definition to
read:
§ 102. Definitions.
Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
provisions of this title which are applicable to specific
provisions of this title, the following words and phrases when
used in this title shall have, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
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"Hazardous material." Any explosive, blasting agent,
flammable liquid, combustible liquid, flammable solid, flammable
or nonflammable compressed gas, corrosive material, poison,
poison gas, irritant, oxidizer, organic peroxide, radioactive
material, etiologic agent, cryogenic liquid, hazardous waste,
hydraulic fracturing wastewater, hazardous substance or other
material which the department by procedure prescribed in Chapter
83 (relating to hazardous materials transportation) declares to
be a hazardous material.
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"Hydraulic fracturing wastewater." The waste product or
discharge resulting from the industrial process of hydraulic
fracturing which contains noxious or deleterious substances
being harmful or inimical to the public health or to animal or
acquatic life or to the use of water for domestic water supply
or for recreation, or which constitutes pollution under the act
of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known as The Clean Streams
Law.
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Section 2. Title 75 is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 8302.1. Hydraulic fracturing wastewater transportation.
(a) Placard.--Any vehicle carrying hydraulic fracturing
wastewater in this Commonwealth shall have a placard placed on
the outside of the vehicle to show that the vehicle is carrying
hydraulic fracturing wastewater.
(b) Duties.--The department shall promulgate regulations
concerning the design and placement of the placard described
under subsection (a).
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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