The Department of Environmental Protection published notice of a final policy on incidential coal extraction and a draft policy for comment for the Land Recycling Program.

Final: DEP ID: 563-2000-003. Incidental Coal Extraction for Government-Financed Construction Projects or Government-Financed Reclamation Projects. The regulations at 25 Pa. Code § 86.6 (relating to extraction of coal incidental to government-financed construction or government-financed reclamation projects) allow for an exemption from the permitting requirement for the extraction of coal incidental to government-financed construction projects and government-financed reclamation projects under certain circumstances.

Draft: DEP ID: 253-0300-100. Pennsylvania's Land Recycling Program Technical Guidance Manual--Section IV General Guidance. The substantive revisions proposed to Pennsylvania's Land Recycling Program Technical Guidance Manual--Section IV General Guidance include the addition of several regulated substances to the ''short list'' in Table IV-9 for several petroleum products and mineral insulating oils containing PCBs.

Comments due: September 4.

For copies of Draft Technical Guidance (DEP website)

For copies of Final Technical Guidance (DEP website)

8/3/2007