PA House Resolution 60

In a 23-JUN-2016 press release, PA state Rep. Mike Hanna provided that House Resolution 60 passed the PA House unanimously.

Upon passage, it’s resolved that the “Legislative Budget and Finance Committee undertake a comprehensive review of the beneficial use of biosolids by land application and prepare a report of its findings which shall, at a minimum, identify all of the following:
(1) The methods currently used for biosolids use and
disposal in this Commonwealth.
(2) The costs involved with current methods of biosolids
use and disposal.
(3) The methods used to administer and enforce the
program established under 25 Pa. Code Ch. 271 Subch. J by the
Department of Environmental Protection.
(4) All appropriate alternatives to current use and
disposal methods employed in this Commonwealth and in other
states, particularly in regard to their economic feasibility
and effects on the environment and on public health in
comparison to current use and disposal methods; METHODS.
(5) ANY ALTERNATIVE BENEFICIAL USE, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION AND ABANDONED MINE
RECLAMATION, AND ANY OBSTACLES THAT MAY HINDER THE EXPANSION
OF ANY ALTERNATIVE BENEFICIAL USE OF BIOSOLIDS;”

Findings and recommendations of the Committee will be submitted within 1 year.

See the attached for further detail.

PA House Resolution 60