DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The mission of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is to protect Pennsylvania'sair, land, and water from pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens througha cleaner environment. The department will work as partners with individuals. organizations,governments, and businesses to prevent pollution and restore our natural resources.

Programs and Goals

Environmental Support Services: to provide administrative and technical support for thecommonwealth's environmental protection programs.

Environmental Protection and Management: to protect Pennsylvania's air, land, and waterfrom pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleanerenvironment. We meet this responsibility for administering Pennsylvania's environmental laws toprotect our air, land, and water by enforcing clean air and water standards, managing landprotection activities and ensuring waste is handled properly, ensuring safe and healthycommunities, and promoting sustainable energy.

Program: EnvironmentalSupport Services

Goal: to provide administrative and technical support for the commonwealth's environmentalprotection programs.

This program provides for the administrative and technical systems that direct and support theDEP programs. It includes the executive and administrative offices, the Office of Chief Counsel.information and data processing systems, the Citizens Advisory Council, and the EnvironmentalQuality Board.

DEP continues to marshal every available resource to maximize its use of cutting-edgeelectronic solutions and promote a culture of continuous process improvement. DEP'sInformation Technology Delivery Center is working on a core set of initiatives that continue tofocus on reducing and ending paper-driven processes by developing program-specific, customapplications for permitting and inspections. DEP is also harnessing the power of off-the-shelfsolutions to centralize data and make it accessible to both internal and external stakeholders.

DEP continues our partnership with other commonwealth agencies in the adoption of reusabletechnologies, including partnerships with the Pennsylvania Department of Community andEconomic Development on digitizing our grants systems, and with the Pennsylvania Departmentof Transportation on developing e-inspections applications.

The Environmental Hearing Board's purpose is to safeguard the environmental rights ofPennsylvania's citizens through appeals of actions taken or instituted by DEP and/or the privatesector. It is included here for presentation purposes.

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Program: Environmental Protection and Management

Goal: to protect Pennsylvania's air, land, and water from pollution and to provide for the healthand safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment. We meet this responsibility foradministering Pennsylvania's environmental laws to protect our air, land, and water by enforcingclean air and water standards, managing land protection activities and ensuring waste ishandled properly, ensuring safe and healthy communities, and promoting sustainable energy.

This program focuses on achieving DEPs mission to protect Pennsylvania's air, land, andwater from pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens. These activitiesencompass major program elements including clean water, clean air, land protection, healthycommunities, and sustainable energy.

Permitting and inspection functions are fundamental to most of DEP's programs andregulatory oversight. The permit approval process occurs prior to an industrial activity (or duringmodification), and inspections occur as specified in regulations throughout the life of thepermitted activity. Both permits and inspections cover almost every industry and are often arequirement to maintain primacy of certain federal programs, such as Safe Drinking Water, AirQuality, and Mining. Building upon an efficiency initiative begun in 2017, and amplified this year,DEP staff continue to find ways to make the permitting process simpler, more effective, andmore efficient.

Enforcing Clean Water Standards

DEP regulates nearly 9,000 public water systems serving l0.7 million Pennsylvanians. DEPalso provides consultative services for the 700,000 private residential water supplies inPennsylvania. DEP carries out its duties and responsibilities through various programs andactivities related to permitting, monitoring. compliance, enforcement, and technical assistance.DEP implements all aspects of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. including drinking waterstandards, source water protection, operator training and certification, and capabilityenhancement programs for public water systems to address technical, managerial, and financialissues

DEP is responsible for monitoring and assessing Pennsylvania's 86,000 miles of streams andrivers as well as more than 109,000 acres of publicly owned lakes. DEP protects natural aquaticsystems for public use by monitoring and assessing surface water quality. developing waterquality standards, managing non-point sources of pollution, protecting coastal zone resources,and regulating mining and oil and gas development. Protection of these waters is carried outthrough permitting, inspection, and enforcement activities. Most inspection activities are relatedto permitted facilities that discharge or have the potential to discharge wastewater to waters ofthe commonwealth. DEP also inspects non-permitted entities and responds to spills andcomplaints where waters may be affected.

DEP also develops, implements, and evaluates statewide policy and program activities topromote interagency and interstate cooperation on a wide range of shared water resourceissues

A re-focus of the commonwealth's plan for the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay wasannounced in early January 2016, and developed in concert with the Pennsylvania departmentsof Agriculture, and Conservation and Natural Resources. The departments are in the process ofdeveloping Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Bay Phase 3 Watershed Implementation Plan (Phase 3WIP) using a collaborative, strong local engagement approach to ensure the plan is

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implementable and results in local water quality improvement while restoring the ChesapeakeBay. The main focus of the Phase 3 WIP will be the development and implementation ofCountywide Action Plans to address local planning goals for nutrient reduction, while achievingother local priority initiatives for environmental improvement. DEP also has the lead in workingwith the other state and federal partners that comprise the Chesapeake Bay ProgramPartnership. This partnership is focused on the implementation of the 2014 Chesapeake BayWatershed Agreement, which defined 10 goals and 31 outcomes for the improvement andenhancement of water quality, habitat, environmental literacy, diversity, and stewardshipinitiatives.

DEP provides support to County Conservation Districts, which support the conservation andrestoration of the commonwealth's water resources. DEP also focuses efforts on technicalassistance and compliance efforts to ensure that municipal sewage and storm water systemsand agricultural operations are reducing nitrogen, phosphorous, and sediment discharges intolocal waterways.

Enforcing Clean Air Standards

DEP protects the environment and the health of Pennsylvanians from air pollution byachieving the goals of the federal Clean Air Act and the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act.DEP develops air quality regulations and the Commonwealth's State Implementation Plan toprimarily address ground-level ozone, particulate matter, sulfur and nitrogen oxides, volatileorganic compounds, lead, and hazardous air pollutants. These air pollutants can aggravate orcause respiratory ailments, cause cancer, and produce other adverse health and environmentaleffects. DEP designs and maintains networks to monitor ambient air quality in Pennsylvania,performs meteorological tracking, and conducts air quality modeling studies to scientificallydetermine whether air quality goals are achieved. Due to the location of Pennsylvania in thepopulated northeast corridor, DEP implements regional haze and interstate ozone transportp roqrams.

DEP administers a permitting system, including federal Title V permitting of air pollutionsources, develops transportation control measures and other mobile source programs, andinspects and enforces other air pollution control requirements.

The Governor's methane reduction strategy was announced in January 201 6 to addressmethane and volatile organic compound emissions from the oiland gas sector. DEP hasimplemented new source permitting requirements and is working on rules for existing sources ofemissions.

Managing Land Protection Activities

DEP encourages waste reduction, promotes recycling and reuse of waste products, andprotects the public by providing for safe transportation, processing and disposal of municipalwaste, residual waste, and hazardous waste. DEP also protects land resources by regulatingabove-ground and underground tanks that store petroleum and other hazardous substances.

DEP oversees the Land Recycling Program to encourage cleanup of contaminated, vacant, orotherwise underutilized properties and return them to productive use and administers theHazardous Sites Cleanup Program to clean up threats to human health and the environmentfrom toxic chemicals from abandoned sites or where there is no viable responsible person. DEPis participating in the Governor's PFAS Action Team to address releases of Per- andPolyfluoroalkyl Substances to drinking water systems and to land.

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Restoring and enhancing the quality of watersheds aligns several programs and agencyobjectives. DEP continues to work in partnerships to restore land impacted by legacyenvironmental issues and improve local water quality through the Land Recycling Program, theHazardous Sites Cleanup Program. and the Abandoned Mine Land Program.

Ensuring Safe and Healthy CommunitiesDEP's Office of Environmental Justice works to ensure that all Pennsylvanians, especially

those communities that have historically been disenfranchised, are fully involved in thedecisions that affect their environment and that all communities are not unjustly and/ordisproportionally burdened with environmental hazards. The Environmental Justice office iscommitted to minimizing adverse environmental impacts, empowering communities, andfostering economic opportunities.

To protect residents from exposure to potentially dangerous levels of radiation, DEP performsa range of licensing and inspection activities, such as registering radiation-producing equipmentlicensing users of radioactive materials and inspecting facilities to ensure compliance. DEP alsoinspects mammography X-ray facilities under a contract with the U.S. Food and DrugAdministration to enhance the quality of mammograms and increase the likelihood of earlydetection of breast cancer. DEP certifies all radon testers, mitigators, and laboratories operatingin the commonwealth and closely monitors test results and mitigation actions where there arethreats posed by radon to the public.

To reduce the threat of West Nile Virus, DEP, in cooperation with state and county agencies,monitors mosquito populations, enacts control measures for the mosquitoes that may carry thevirus, and examines unknown vectors and reservoirs involved in the transmission of the virus.

DEP's emergency response personnel are available whenever there is an immediate threat topublic health, safety, or the environment. Each year, DEP staff respond to thousands ofenvironmental incidents. DEP staff are also trained to respond to any incident or accident atPennsylvania's nine operating nuclear power plants. While DEP's major focus is the response tospills to land and water, it also has significant involvement with air pollution incidents (fires, orindustrial or transportation-related releases) and leaking underground storage tanks.

DEP's flood protection and stream improvement programs protect lives and property throughthe construction of physical structures such as dams, levees, flood walls, channels, culverts,and bank stabilization works. Large-scale flood protection projects are generally designed toprotect communities from damages from a I percent annual chance flood event, also known asthe 100-yearflood event.

DEP regulates the proper planning. design, construction, maintenance, monitoring, andsupervision of dams and reservoirs, including preventive measures necessary to provide anadequate margin of safety in order to protect the health, safety. welfare, and property of thepeople

DEP regulates mining with a goal to minimize impacts to the environment while providing aclimate that encourages economic growth, as well as a safe and healthy work environment forminers

DEP oversees the permitting. inspection, and compliance of conventional and unconventionaloil and gas wells and the construction of pipelines in Pennsylvania. It also responds tocomplaints from the public regarding water supplies that might be aHected by oll and gasoperations. In addition, DEP oversees the plugging of wells that no longer serve their intendedpurpose.

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DEP helps to improve the economic climate for firms to locate and expand in Pennsylvaniathrough programs such as the Small Business Assistance Program.

Promoting Sustainable Energy

Because the most serious environmental threat facing Pennsylvania is climate change, DEP'senergy office undertakes activities to plan, track, implement, and promote energy efficiency,such as advocating for the use of energy-efficient building codes and energy managementsystems, renewable energy and alternative fuels. The office is also involved with energyassurance and security, fuel resource and energy financial market issues. The office hasseveral programs to aid consumers and promote clean, renewable energy, which is vital toPennsylvania's economic growth, environmental protection, and electrical grid resiliency.

Energy office staff assist, educate, and encourage Pennsylvanians to advance conservationand efficient use of diverse energy resources to provide a healthier environment and greaterenergy security for our future generations. DEP also collects and provides useful energy data tointerested parties. In 2019, DEP will distribute a Comprehensive Energy Assessment, includingenergy production, consumption, and resource potential to coincide with DEP's Climate ActionPlan Update. The goal of the assessment is to assist DEP and stakeholders in understandingthe current, future, and potential energy landscapes in Pennsylvania and to identify andprioritize forward-looking opportunities for greenhouse gas reductions associated with cleanenergy policy implementation and changing energy trends.

DEPFUNDING SOURCES

The attached chart shows the Department of Environmental Protection's overall funding . The informationused in this chart is for the current 2018-1 9 fiscal year's enacted budget.

© General Fund -- 21 % of Overall DEP Fundingo General revenues of the State, appropriated by the Legislature to pay for general

expenses of the Department- Examples of DEP General Funds:

General Government OperationsEnvironmental Program ManagementEnvironmental Protection OperationsBlack Fly ControlWest Nile / Zika VirusChesapeake Bay Agricultural Source AbatementCommissions Dues -- Susquehanna River Basin CommissionDelaware River Basin Commission, etc.

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0 These funds pay for Department operational costs - administrative, executivelegal, policy, and "boots on the ground" - inspection and enforcement

o Any unused funds in a fiscal year are lapsed back into the Commonwealth'sGeneral Fund and not to the Department

. Augmentations 5% of Overall DEP Funding

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Monies received and credited to a specific State appropriation, usually received asa result ofa billing ora feeExamples of augmentations within DEP:

Bureau of Laboratories and IT chargebacks -- for services provided to areasin the DepartmentBlack Fly / West Nile/Zika Virus - reimbursement from counties for sprayingservices provided by the DepartmentSpecial Fund support to general fund for administrative and program costs

Programs charged for share of the total cost of program staffoccupying each of DEP's six leased regional office buildings

. Programs charged to provide financial support to the General Fundfor indirect cost charges including the Department's executiveoffices, the Office of Administration and Management, the ChiefCounsel's Office and the regional directors' offices.

. Other General Funds/Restricted Revenues 12% of Overall DEP Funding

o Revenues that are designated by law or administrative decision for a specificpurpose

- They fund a regular operation of the Department

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In simplest of terms, continue from one year to the next - like a checkingaccount

Revenues are generated by fees (permit, registration, etc.), fines, penaltiesInterest is credited to the Commonwealth's General Fund: not to DEPExamples of DEP Restricted Revenue Funds:

Clean WaterSafe Drinking WaterWell Plugging (Oil & Gas)

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. Special Funds 31% of Overall DEP Funding

0 Revenues raised from special sources named by law -- earmarked revenueRevenues can be spent only for purposes prescribed by the law and forwhich the revenues were collected

. Any unused funds in a fiscal year are lapsed back into thefund/returned to the fund

Revenues are generated by fees (permit, registration, etc.), fines, penalties

0 Funding requests by the Department that are authorized in the name of theGovernor - previously were appropriated through blanket action of the GeneralAssembly

. Examples of DEP Special Funds:o Clean Airo Hazardous Sites Cleanup Fundo Recycling Fund

. FederaIFunds 31% of Overall DEP Funding

o Monies appropriated to the Department for a specific periodRepresents the spending authority estimated to be needed by theDepartment for the estimated active federalgrants for that fiscalyear andgrants that may become available during that fiscal year

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

FY2018-19 ENACTED BUDGET$716,663,710

as ofJuly 1,2018

OTHER GENERAL FUNDS

RESTRICTED REVENUES

$82,498,000 11.51%

AUGMENTATIONS

$36,746,710 5.13%

GENERALFUND

S153,284,000 21.39%

SPECIAL

$224,510,000 31.33%

FEDERALFUNDS

$219,625,000 30.65%

GENERALFUND

GeneraIGovernment Operations

EnvironmentalProgram Management

Chesapeake Bay Agric Source Abate

EnvironmentalProtection Operations

Black Fly Control

West Nile Virus / Zika Virus Control

Delaware River Master

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

Interstate Comm. on the Potomac River

Delaware River Basin Commission

Ohio River Valley Water San Comm

Chesapeake Bay Commission

Transfer to Conservation District Fund

Interstate Mining Commission

TOTAL:

$153,284,000 OTHER GENERAL FUNDS/ RESTRICTED REVENUES

Safe Drinking Water Account

Radiation Protection Fund

Clean Water Fund

Solid Waste Abatement Fund

Well Plugging Account

Abandoned Well Plugging Fund

Orphan Well Plugging FundAlternative Fuels Incentive Grant Fund

IndustriaILand Recycling Fund

Waste Transportation Safety Account

Electronics MateriaIRecycling Account

$ 82,498,00014

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Used Tire Pile Remediation (EA)

TOTAL:

686,000

1,003,000

$ 82,498,000$

AUGMENTATIONS

Reimb for EDP Services - GGO

Reimb for Dept Services - GGO

Puts for Services - EPM

Sale of Vehicles - EPM

PA DOT ISTEA - EPM

WPC Revolving Fund - EPM

Clean Water fund - EPM

Clean Air Fund - EPO

Sale of Vehicles - EPO

WPC Revolving Fund - EPO

Safe Drinking Water Account - EPO

Solid Waste Abatement Fund - EPO

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DEP SPECIAL FUNDS

Acid Mine Drainage Abatement and Treatment Fund

Clean Air Fund/Major Emission Facilities

Clean Air Fund/Mobile & Area Facilities

Coal & Clay Mine Subsidence Fund/Gen Operations

Coal & Clay Mine Subsidence Fund/Pyt of ClaimsCoal Lands Restoration

Conservation District Grants

Energy Development - Administration (EA)

Energy Development Loans/Grants(EA)

Environment Education Fund/GeneralOperations

Watershed Protection and Restoration (EAI

$224,510,000

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17,878,000

9,369,000

3,866,000

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175,000

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172,000

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AUGMENTATIONS fcontlnuedU

Reimb for Services - EPO

PennDOT ISTEA Program - EPO

SDW Revolving Fund - EPO

Reimb for Labs - EPO

Lab Accreditation - EPO

Reimb from Counties - Black Fly

TOTAL:

DEP SPECIAL FUNDS fcontfnuedJ

HSCF/General Operations

HSCF/Hazardous Sites Clea nup

HSCF/Host Municipality Grants

HSCF/rrfr Industrial Sites Cleanup Fund

HSCF/SmalIBusiness Pollution Prevention

HSCF/rrfr - Industrial Sites Environmental Assessment

HSCF/Trfr - Household Hazardous Waste Account

Mine Safety Fund

Non-CoalSMCRF/GeneralOperations

Nutrient Mgmt Fund/Educ, Research & Tech Aust.

Recycling Fund/Recycling Coordinator Reimbursement

Recycling Fund/Reimb of Municipal Inspectors

Recycling Fund/Reimb of Host Munic Permit App Review

Recycling Fund/Administration of Recycling Program

Recycling Fund/County Planning Grants

Recycling Fund/Municipal Recycling Grants

Recycling Fund/Municipal Recycling Performance Frog

Recycling Fund/Public Education &/technical Assistance

Remining FinanciaIAssurance Fund

Storage Tank Fund - GeneralOperations

Storage Tank Fund - Investigation & Closure Reimb (A)

Storage Tank Fund - federal Grant/UST

Storage Tank Fund - Federal Grant/LUST

Surface Mining Conserv & Reclam Fund - Gen Operations

Unconventional Gas Well Fund/rrfr to Well Plugging Acct

Undgrnd Storage Tank Indem Fund/Environ Cleanup

Undgrnd Storage Tank Indem Fund/Pollution Prev

TOTAL:

5,297,000

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$224,510,000

FEDERAL FUNDS

Coastal Zone Management

CMAG - Administration

Stormwater Permitting Initiative

Safe Drinking Water - Mgmt

Water Pollution Control - Mgmt

Air Pollution Control - Mgmt

Surface Mine Conservation

Wetland Protection Fund

DiagnosticX-Ray EquipTesting

Water Quality Outreach Training

Water Quality Mgt Ping Grant

Small Operators Assistance

Wellhead Protection Fund

Indoor Radon Abatement

Non-Point Source Implementation

Hydroelectric Power Cons Fund

Survey Studies

National Dam Safety

Training Reimb for SmallSystems

State Energy Program (SEP)

Pollution Prevention

Energy & EnvironmentalOpportunitiesSurface Mine Conservation

Multipurpose Grants to States and Tribes

Abandoned Mine Reclamation

Nuclear and Chemical Security

Homeland Security Initiative

Chesapeake Bay Poll Abatement

EPA Planning Grant - AdminWater Pollution Control Act

Air Pollution Control Grant

Su rface Mine Contra & Reclamtn

Trng and Educ of Undgrnd Miners

Construction Mgmt Assist Grant

Safe Drinking Water Act

Oil Pollution Spills Removal

Tech Assist to Small Systems

Assistance to State ProgramsLocal Assist & Source Wtr Prot

Great Lakes Restoration

West Nile Virus and Zika Virus Control

Zika Vector Control Response

TOTAL:

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