Section 4. Powers and duties of the Environmental Quality
Board.
(a) Plan.--Within 90 days of the receipt of the comprehensive plan from the Department of Environmental Resources, the Environmental Quality Board shall have the power and its duty shall be to adopt a Pennsylvania Infectious and Chemotherapeutic Wastes Plan. The Environmental Quality Board shall conduct at least one public hearing prior to the adoption of a plan.
(b) Regulations.--The Environmental Quality Board shall have the power and its duty shall be to adopt any rules and regulations of the Department of Environmental Resources to accomplish the purposes and to carry out the provisions of this act.
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 4(b).