THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

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.