|
Date
|
Law
|
Description
|
Regulatory
Agency
|
| 1937 |
Clean Streams Law |
Provided Pennsylvania with the authority to protect streams
from pollution and the effects of surface mining.
Prohibits littering or dumping that effects the waters of the
Commonwealth of PA and can fineup to $10,000 for offenses (littering
is also regulated by the Fish and Boat Comission, PA Game Commission,
Bureau of State Parks, and local authorities).
|
DEP |
| 1939 |
PA Water Rights Act |
Allocates water supplies.
|
DEP |
| 1959 |
Air Pollution Control Act, PA Act
787 |
Pennsylvania law created to protect humans and the environment against airborne
pollutants, including auto exhaust.
|
DEP
|
| 1964 |
PA Act 8, Project 70 Land Acquisition
and Borrowing Act |
Created funding for acquitition of land for conservation.
|
PA Game Commission |
| 1967 |
Preserving Land for Open Air Space,
PA Act 442 |
Funding program and education aimed to preserve
open space.
|
Local government |
| 1968 |
PA Act 443, Project 500 |
Reclaimed abandoned mine lands for conservation
and recreational use.
|
DEP |
| 1973 |
PA Pesticide Control Act |
Requires pesticide dealers to be licensed.
Requires pesticides to be labeled.
Outlines acceptable transport, distribution, storage, use, application,
and dispossal of pesticides.
|
PA Department of Agriculture |
| 1982 |
Wild Resource Conservation Act, PA Act 170 |
Created to protect endangered plants and animals.
|
Board created to protect wild animals and plants.
|
| 1988 |
Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction
Act, PA Act 101 |
Purpose is to reduce waste and recycle 25% of the total waste
in PA.
Encourages composting.
Eliminates yard clippings in dumps.
Prevent pollution from the disposal of solid waste.
|
DEP
Bureau of Land Recycling and Waste Management |
| 1988 |
Hazardous Waste Cleanup Act |
Funding for the cleanup of toxic waste sites and
strenthens standards for new hazardous waste facilities.
|
EPA |
| 1989 |
Phosphate Ban Act, PA Act 31 |
To eliminate phosphate in laundry detergents from entering waterways ad causing
eutrophication of surface waters.
|
DEP |
| 1999 |
Growing Greener |
Funding to protect and preserve farmland and open space, maintain parks, clean
up abandoned mines, restore watersheds, and upgrade sewer systems.
|
DCNR |
| 1999 |
Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection
Act |
Provides money to protect open space and critical
habitats, conserve river resources, create greenways, build community
parks and playgrounds, and enhance tourism. |
DCNR
DEP
PA Deptartment of Agriculture (PDA)
PA Investment Infrastructure Authority(PENNVEST)
|
|
1981, Amended 1999
|
Agricultural Conservation and Easement Purchase
Program |
Allows farmers to place an easement on their land
do that it will remain farmland and will not be developed. |
State Agricultural Land Preservation Board |
