HB 1035 — An Act amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, in general provisions, further providing for definitions.

PRINTER'S NO.   1119

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 1035
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY COOK, JAMES, RADER, FLOOD, BERNSTINE, E. NELSON,
        MALONEY, OLSOMMER, IRVIN, KOZAK, RYNCAVAGE, ARMANINI, ROAE,
        SMITH, GREINER, STEHR, HAMM, M. JONES, WHITE, MOUL, BARGER,
        M. MACKENZIE, DIAMOND, CAUSER, O'NEAL AND FINK,
        MARCH 24, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE
        PROTECTION, MARCH 24, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), entitled "An
 2      act providing for the planning and regulation of solid waste
 3      storage, collection, transportation, processing, treatment,
 4      and disposal; requiring municipalities to submit plans for
 5      municipal waste management systems in their jurisdictions;
 6      authorizing grants to municipalities; providing regulation of
 7      the management of municipal, residual and hazardous waste;
 8      requiring permits for operating hazardous waste and solid
 9      waste storage, processing, treatment, and disposal
10      facilities; and licenses for transportation of hazardous
11      waste; imposing duties on persons and municipalities;
12      granting powers to municipalities; authorizing the
13      Environmental Quality Board and the Department of
14      Environmental Protection to adopt rules, regulations,
15      standards and procedures; granting powers to and imposing
16      duties upon county health departments; providing remedies;
17      prescribing penalties; and establishing a fund," in general
18      provisions, further providing for definitions.
19      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20   hereby enacts as follows:
21      Section 1.    The definitions of "advanced recycling,"
22   "advanced recycling facility," "municipal waste," "processing"
23   and "treatment" in section 103 of the act of July 7, 1980
24   (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, are
 1   amended and the section is amended by adding a definition to
 2   read:
 3   Section 103.    Definitions.
 4      The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
 5   have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the
 6   meanings given to them in this section:
 7      * * *
 8      "Advanced recycling."       The term includes:
 9           (1)    A manufacturing process for the conversion of post-
10      use polymers through processes, including pyrolysis,
11      gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking,
12      reforming, hydrogenation and other similar technologies, into
13      any of the following:
14                 [(1)] (i)    Basic hydrocarbon raw materials,
15           feedstocks, chemicals, liquid fuels, waxes and
16           lubricants.
17                 [(2)] (ii)    Other products, including, but not
18           limited to, monomers, oligomers, plastics, crude oil,
19           naphtha, liquid transportation fuels and other basic
20           hydrocarbons.
21           (2)    A manufacturing process for the conversion of waste
22      tires through mechanical shredding or pyrolysis into any of
23      the following:
24                 (i)    Pyrolytic gases and pyrolytic gas vapors to be
25           burned directly for fuel.
26                 (ii)    Pyrolysis oils.
27                 (iii)    Limonene.
28                 (iv)    Solid minerals or steel.
29                 (v)    Recovered carbon black.
30                 (vi)    Transportation fuels.

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 1                (vii)   Transportation fuel feedstock.
 2      "Advanced recycling facility."        A manufacturing facility that
 3   receives post-use polymers or waste tires and separates, stores
 4   and converts the post-use polymers or waste tires using advanced
 5   recycling. The term does not include a resource recovery
 6   facility, processing facility, municipal waste processing or
 7   disposal facility or any other facility that receives unsorted
 8   municipal waste for the purpose of separating out post-use
 9   polymers or waste tires for use in advanced recycling.
10      * * *
11      "Municipal waste."     Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom
12   or office waste and other material including solid, liquid,
13   semisolid or contained gaseous material resulting from operation
14   of residential, municipal, commercial or institutional
15   establishments and from community activities and any sludge not
16   meeting the definition of residual or hazardous waste hereunder
17   from a municipal, commercial or institutional water supply
18   treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, or air pollution
19   control facility. The term does not include post-use polymers or
20   waste tires that are converted through advanced recycling.
21      * * *
22      "Processing."
23          (1)   The term includes any of the following:
24                (i)    Any method or technology used for the purpose of
25          reducing the volume or bulk of municipal or residual
26          waste or any method or technology used to convert part or
27          all of such waste materials for off-site reuse.
28                (ii)    Transfer facilities, composting facilities, and
29          resource recovery facilities.
30          (2)   The term does not include any of the following:

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 1              (i)     A collection or processing center that is only
 2          for source-separated recyclable materials, including
 3          clear glass, colored glass, aluminum, steel and
 4          bimetallic cans, high-grade office paper, newsprint,
 5          corrugated paper and plastics.
 6              (ii)    The conversion of post-use polymers or waste
 7          tires through advanced recycling in which the
 8          manufacturing activities, handling of the post-use
 9          polymers or waste tires at an advanced recycling facility
10          and the products and by-products of the advanced
11          recycling conversion comply with all applicable
12          Environmental Protection Agency and department rules and
13          regulations.
14      * * *
15      "Treatment."    Any method, technique, or process, including
16   neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or
17   biological character or composition of any waste so as to
18   neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste
19   nonhazardous, safer for transport, suitable for recovery,
20   suitable for storage, or reduced in volume. Such term includes
21   any activity or processing designed to change the physical form
22   or chemical composition of waste so as to render it neutral or
23   nonhazardous. The term does not include the conversion of post-
24   use polymers or waste tires through advanced recycling in which
25   the manufacturing activities, handling of the post-use polymers
26   or waste tires at an advanced recycling facility and the
27   products and by-products of the advanced recycling conversion
28   comply with all applicable Environmental Protection Agency and
29   department rules and regulations.
30      "Waste tire."    A tire that will no longer be used for the

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1   purpose for which it was originally intended. The term includes
2   a tire that has been discarded. For the purpose of this act,
3   waste tires that are converted using advanced recycling shall
4   not be considered solid waste, municipal waste or residual
5   waste.
6      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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