Section 6018.507 - Siting of hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities(a) The Department of Environmental Protection shall have the power and authority to develop, prepare and modify the Pennsylvania Hazardous Waste Facilities Plan. The plan shall include: (1) Criteria and standards for siting hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities.(2) An inventory and evaluation of the sources of hazardous waste concentration within the Commonwealth including types and quantities of hazardous waste.(3) An inventory and evaluation of current hazardous waste practices within the Commonwealth including existing hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities.(4) A determination of future hazardous waste facility needs based on an evaluation of existing treatment and disposal facilities including their location, capacities and capabilities, and the existing and projected generation of hazardous waste within the Commonwealth and including where the department within its discretion finds such information to be available, the projected generation outside the Commonwealth of hazardous wastes expected to be transported into the Commonwealth for storage, treatment or disposal.(5) An analysis of methods, incentives or technologies for source reduction, detoxification, reuse and recovery of hazardous waste and a strategy for implementing such methods, incentives and technologies.(6) Identification of such hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities and their locations (in addition to existing facilities) as are necessary to provide for the proper management of hazardous waste generated within this Commonwealth.(b) In preparation of the plan the department shall consult with affected persons, municipalities and state agencies. Within 60 days after the effective date of this act the secretary shall appoint the Pennsylvania Hazardous Waste Facilities Planning Advisory Committee. The department shall insure that the advisory body consist of substantially equivalent proportions of the following four groups: private citizens, representatives of public interest groups, public officials and citizens or representatives of organizations with substantial economic interest in the plan. It shall specifically include but not be limited to a representative of a waste treatment operator, a waste generator, local governments, environmentalists, and academic scientist.(c) The committee may recommend to the department the adoption of such rules and regulations, standards, criteria and procedures as it deems necessary and advisable for the preparation, development, adoption and implementation of the Pennsylvania Hazardous Waste Facilities Plan.(d) A vacancy occurring on the committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment and the secretary or his representative shall serve as chairperson of the committee.(e) The committee shall establish operating procedures and may solicit the advice of municipalities or other persons.(f) The committee shall disband after adoption of the plan by the Environmental Quality Board unless the committee is reconstituted as a provision of the plan.(g) Not later than two years after the date of enactment of this act, the Environmental Quality Board shall adopt the Pennsylvania Hazardous Waste Facilities Plan and the department shall review and amend said plan as necessary but in no event less than every five years following adoption.Amended by P.L. TBD 2020 No. 127, § 3, eff. 1/24/2021. 1980 , July 7, P.L. 380, No. 97, § 507, effective in 60 days.