Section 303. Powers and duties of Environmental Quality Board.
The board, exercising its powers and duties under section 1920-A of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, has the power and duty to promulgate the regulations of the department to accomplish the purposes and to carry out the provisions of this act, including, but not limited to, regulations relating to the protection, from the release of hazardous substances, of the safety, health, welfare and property of the public and of the air, water, land and other natural resources of this Commonwealth.
Compiler's Note: Section 502(c) of Act 18 of 1995, which created the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection, provided that the Environmental Quality Board shall have the powers and duties currently vested in it, except as vested in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by Act 18 of 1995, which powers and duties include those set forth in section 303.