Section 6. Powers and Duties of the Environmental Quality Board.--(a) The Environmental Quality Board shall have the power and its duties shall be to adopt rules and regulations to accomplish the purposes of this act, including but not limited to the setting of a uniform interest rate to be applied to loans administered under this act. Such interest rate shall be established at three percent (3%) annually. ((a) amended Oct. 7, 1975, P.L.375, No.108)
(b) Such rules and regulations shall be adopted pursuant to the provisions of the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240), known as the "Commonwealth Documents Law," upon such notice and after such public hearings as the Environmental Quality Board deems appropriate.
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 6.