Pennsylvania Code
Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part I - Department of Environmental Protection
Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources
Article II - Water Resources
Chapter 91 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
APPLICATIONS AND PERMITS
Section 91.26 - Withholding permit for noncompliance
Current through Register Vol. 55, No. 13, March 29, 2025
(a) When considering applications coming before it, the Department will take notice of the failure of the applicant to comply with any of its prior requirements or orders respecting sewerage or industrial waste disposal and will consider the application favorably only if, in its opinion, there are sufficient extenuating reasons for the failure or if the public interest as affected by the proposed project warrants favorable action, in which case the Department will include suitable conditions respecting compliance with its unfulfilled requirements in any permit which it may authorize.
(b) The Department will not consider an application or issue a permit to an applicant who has conducted or is conducting a mining operation which is in violation of the act, rules and regulations of the Department, or permit conditions unless and until the violation is abated or corrected to the satisfaction of the Department.
