Section 106. Powers and duties of Environmental Quality Board.
(a) General authority.--The Environmental Quality Board shall have the power and its duty shall be to adopt rules and regulations of the department governing aboveground and underground storage tanks to accomplish the purposes and carry out the provisions of this act.
(b) Registration fees.--The registration fees established under sections 302 and 502 shall be permanent fees paid by tank owners. This subsection shall expire December 31, 2009.
(106 amended July 5, 2005, P.L.97, No.36)
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 105.