2025
Meetings of the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) are held on the second Tuesday of every month (unless otherwise noted). Meetings will only be held when there is a sufficient number of agenda items for consideration. All meetings will convene at 9:00 a.m. and will be held in-person in Room 105, Rachel Carson State Office Building 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA, as well as having a remote participation option.
The meeting dates are as follows:
April 8, 2025
- Agenda (PDF)
- Minutes of November 12, 2024 Meeting (PDF)
- Final Rulemaking: Water Quality Standards – Site-Specific Water Quality Criteria (25 Pa. Code Chapter 93)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Comment Response Document (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Proposed Rulemaking: Legal Authority for Delegation of Federal Plans in 40 CFR Part 62 (25 Pa. Code Chapter 122)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Proposed Rulemaking: Administration of the Land Recycling Program – Chromium (VI) (25 Pa. Code Chapter 250)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Unconventional Well Setbacks (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
September 9, 2025
- Agenda (PDF)
- Minutes of April 8, 2025 Meeting (PDF)
- Final Rulemaking: Corrections to Additional RACT Requirements for Major Sources of NOx and VOCs for the 2015 Ozone NAAQS (RACT 3) (25 Pa. Code Chapter 129)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Final-Omitted Rulemaking: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Consistency Rule – Incorporation by Reference (25 Pa. Code Chapters 215, 217, 219, 220 and 230)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Proposed Rulemaking: Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Fees (25 Pa. Code Chapter 252)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Fee Report (PDF)
- Proposed Rulemaking: Safe Drinking Water Revised Consumer Confidence Report Rule (25 Pa. Code Chapter 109)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- PWS-TAC Board Letter (PDF)
- Final Rulemaking: Triennial Review of Water Quality Standards (25 Pa. Code Chapter 93)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Executive Summary (PDF)
- Preamble (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Comment Response Document (PDF)
- Commentator List (PDF)
- Regulatory Analysis Form (PDF)
- Human Health Criteria Rationale (PDF)
- 1,4 Dioxane Rationale (PDF)
- Cadmium Rationale (PDF)
- Carbaryl Rationale (PDF)
- Tributyltin Rationale (PDF)
- Statement of Policy: Water Quality Toxics Management Strategy (25 Pa. Code Chapter 16)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
- Notice (PDF)
- Annex A (PDF)
- Fiscal Sheet (PDF)
The following petitions will be considered at the next Environmental Quality Board meeting:
- Rulemaking Petition: Determination of Attainable Bottom (25 Pa. Code Chapters 78 and 78a)
- Petition (PDF)
- Petition (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Onsite Processing of Fluids from Oil and Gas Operations (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
- Petition (PDF)
- Petition (PDF)
December 9, 2025
- Agenda (PDF)
- Minutes of September 9, 2025 Meeting (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Unconventional Gas Well Setbacks (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)\
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Amended Petition (PDF)
- Attachment C, Studies 1 - 11 (PDF)
- Attachment C, Studies 12 - 21 (PDF)
- Attachment C, Studies 22 - 35 (PDF)
- Attachment C, Studies 36 - 42 (PDF)
- Attachment F, Letter (PDF)
- Attachment G-1, Citizen Petitions (PDF)
- Attachment G-2, Citizen Petitions (PDF)
- Attachment G-3, Letters (PDF)
- Attachment G-4, Letters (PDF)
- Attachment G-5, Letters (PDF)
- Attach H-1, Exhibit A-44 (PDF)
- Attach H-2, Stipulation of Facts (PDF)
- Attachment I, Report (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Determination of Attainable Bottom (25 Pa. Code Chapters 78 and 78a)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Petition (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Onsite Processing of Fluids from Oil and Gas Operations (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Petition (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency Plans at Well Sites (25 Pa. Code Chapter 78a)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Petition (PDF)
- Rulemaking Petition: Shades Creek Watershed, Luzerne County (25 Pa. Code Chapter 93)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Petition (PDF)
- Presentation of Regulatory Fee Report: Water and Wastewater Systems Operators’ Certification Program (25 Pa. Code Chapter 302)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Fee Report (PDF)
- Presentation of Regulatory Fee Report: Radiation Protection Program (25 Pa. Code Chapters 218 and 240)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) (available after meeting)
- Fee Report (PDF)
In-Person Location
Room 105
Rachel Carson State Office Building
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
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Date and Time: December 9, 2025 9:00 am EDT
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Contact: Laura Griffin, Regulatory Coordinator, Environmental Quality Board, P.O. Box 8477, Harrisburg, PA, 17105-8477, laurgriffi@pa.gov, (717) 772-3277