Pennsylvania Code
Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Part I - Department of Environmental Protection
Subpart D - Environmental Health and Safety
Article VII - Hazardous Waste Management
Chapter 269a - SITING
Subchapter A - SITING HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES
PHASE I EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA
Section 269a.22 - Flood hazard areas

(a) Surface impoundment, landfill and land treatment facilities may not be sited in the 100-year floodplain or a larger area that the flood of record has inundated.

(b) Treatment and incineration facilities may not be sited in the 100-year floodplain or a larger area that the flood of record has inundated unless the industrial use on the proposed site was in existence as of October 4, 1978, which is the effective date of the Flood Plain Management Act (32 P. S. §§ 679.101-679.601).