SB 624 — An Act amending the act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known as the Solid Waste Management Act, in applications and permits, providing for food processing residuals.

PRINTER'S NO.   617

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 624
                                                  Session of
                                                    2025

     INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, APRIL 11, 2025

     REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, APRIL 11, 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
18      applications and permits, providing for food processing
19      residuals.
20      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21   hereby enacts as follows:
22      Section 1.    The act of July 7, 1980 (P.L.380, No.97), known
23   as the Solid Waste Management Act, is amended by adding a
24   section to read:
25   Section 509.    Food processing residuals.
26      (a)   A person may not:
27            (1)   apply to or spread on any land in this Commonwealth:
 1                (i)    food processing residuals generated from a
 2          municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment
 3          plant;
 4                (ii)    compost material that included in its
 5          production food processing residuals generated from a
 6          municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment
 7          plant or septage; or
 8                (iii)    any other product or material that is intended
 9          for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil
10          replacement or mulch or for other similar agricultural
11          purpose that is derived from or contains food processing
12          residuals generated from a municipal, commercial or
13          industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage; or
14          (2)   sell or distribute in this Commonwealth:
15                (i)    compost material that included in its production
16          food processing residuals generated from a municipal,
17          commercial or industrial wastewater treatment plant or
18          septage; or
19                (ii)    any other product or material that is intended
20          for use as a fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil
21          replacement or mulch or for other similar agricultural
22          purpose that is derived from or contains food processing
23          residuals generated from a municipal, commercial or
24          industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage.
25    (b)   The prohibition under subsection (a) shall not apply to:
26          (1)   The disposal or placement at a solid waste landfill
27    of any of the materials that are prohibited from application,
28    spreading, sale or distribution by this section.
29          (2)   The land application of or the sale or distribution
30    of compost material or other agricultural product or material

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 1      derived from or containing food processing residuals
 2      generated as a result of the processing or cultivation of
 3      food, food waste, crops or vegetative material, the brewing
 4      of malt liquor, the fermenting of wine or hard cider or the
 5      distilling of spirits, including, but not limited to,
 6      blueberries, apples, grapes, potatoes, seaweed, fish and
 7      seafood and spent grain or malt, provided that the food
 8      processing residuals are not mixed with sludge from a
 9      municipal, commercial or industrial wastewater treatment
10      plant, septage, sewage or sanitary wastewater prior to or
11      during land application or the production of the compost
12      material or other agricultural product or material.
13      (c)   As used in this section, the following words and phrases
14   shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless
15   the context clearly indicates otherwise:
16      "Animal processing waste."     Residual materials in liquid or
17   solid form generated in the slaughtering of poultry and
18   livestock or in processing and converting fish, seafood, milk,
19   meat or eggs to food products.
20      "Food processing residuals."     Animal processing waste and
21   vegetative processing waste.
22      "Vegetative processing waste."       Residual materials in liquid
23   or solid form generated in the processing, converting or
24   manufacturing of fruits, vegetables or crops into marketable
25   food items.
26      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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