27 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 61 - Environmental Stewardship And Watershed Protection

• Chapter Notes
• Section 6101 - Short Title Of Chapter
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Act.
• Section 6102 - Legislative Findings
  The General Assembly hereby determines, declares and finds as follows: (1) Ninety-six percent of the water-quality-impaired watersheds in this Commonwealth are polluted because of...
• Section 6103 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 6104 - Fund
  (a) Establishment.--There is established a special fund in the State Treasury, to be known as the Environmental Stewardship Fund. (b) Sources.-- (1) Money appropriated...
• Section 6105 - Agencies
  (a) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.-- (1) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall utilize money it receives from the fund...
• Section 6106 - Property And Equipment Restrictions
  (a) Prohibition.--Recipients of grants under this chapter may not dispose of or convert property or equipment acquired with a grant for purposes other than...
• Section 6107 - Federal Programs
  Agencies may utilize available Federal funds to augment funds available under this chapter.
• Section 6108 - Wild Resource Conservation Fund And Duties Of Department Of Conservation And Natural Resources
  § 6108. Wild Resource Conservation Fund and duties of Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (a) Appropriation.--The moneys contained in the Wild Resource Conservation...
• Section 6109 - Sewage Construction Payments To Municipalities
  (a) Certain payments permitted.--A county or other municipality, municipal authority or school district receiving payments on the effective date of this chapter pursuant to...
• Section 6110 - Environmental Infrastructure Grants To Water And Wastewater Treatment Facilities (Deleted By Amendment)
  § 6110. Environmental infrastructure grants to water and wastewater treatment facilities (Deleted by amendment). 2005 Amendment. Section 6110 was deleted by amendment July 13,...
• Section 6111 - Protection Of Recycling Fund
  (a) Market development funding.--The Department of Environmental Protection, on an annual basis, shall provide sufficient moneys for market development from the Recycling Fund to...
• Section 6112 - Extension Of Fees
  (a) Recycling fee.--(Repealed). (b) Fee established.--Each operator of a municipal waste landfill shall pay, in the same manner prescribed in section 701 of the...
• Section 6113 - Effect Of Repeal Of Site-specific Postclosure Fund Provisions
  § 6113. Effect of repeal of site-specific postclosure fund provisions. (a) General rule.--Prior to certification of final closure and release by the Department of...
• Section 6115 - Commonwealth Indebtedness
  (a) Borrowing authorized.-- (1) Pursuant to section 7(a)(3) of Article VIII of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and the act of April 13, 2005 (P.L.1,...
• Section 6116 - Establishment Of Bond Fund And Allocation And Use Of Bond Proceeds
  § 6116. Establishment of bond fund and allocation and use of bond proceeds. (a) Establishment of bond fund.--There is hereby established a special fund...
• Section 6117 - County Environmental Initiative Program
  (a) Establishment.--There is established the County Environmental Initiative Program. From within the amounts allocated in section 6116(c)(1), (2), (3) and (4) (relating to establishment...
• Section 6118 - Interfund Transfer
  (a) Transfer.--The Secretary of the Budget, in his discretion, may annually transfer funds from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Fund to the fund in such...
• Section 6119 - Reporting
  (a) State departments and agencies.--Every State department and agency receiving funds under this chapter shall publish a report of all projects funded on the...

Last modified: October 8, 2016