§ 5905. Certain State-owned airport.

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all right, title and interest in the property known as Mid-State Airport located in Centre County, containing 496.68 acres, more or less, including the present access road from L.R.504 to and into Mid-State Airport, shall be transferred to and held within the jurisdiction and control of the Department of General Services for all purposes, and the Department of General Services shall have the same powers and duties with respect to Mid-State Airport as it has with respect to other real estate under its jurisdiction, with the exception that the facilities currently owned, used and operated at Mid-State Airport by the Department of Environmental Resources for wild fire attack operations and full access thereto by land and by air shall remain, without charge of any kind, in the Department of Environmental Resources, it being intended that nothing herein shall diminish the ability of the Department of Environmental Resources to continue its wild fire air attack operations as conducted at and out of Mid-State Airport prior to the effective date hereof.

Because this involves a transfer of State forest and State park lands, no future use of Mid-State Airport shall impair in any way the integrity of the adjacent State forest and State park lands and their ecosystems. If at any time the jurisdiction and control of the land herein transferred entails significant maintenance and operation responsibilities for the Department of General Services, then and thereafter the jurisdiction and control of the land shall be transferred to the Department of Transportation.

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Transfer of Powers. Section 302(h) of Act 18 of 1995, which created the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection, provided that the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall exercise the powers and duties conferred upon the Department of Environmental Resources by section 5905.

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SUBCHAPTER B

AIRPORT ZONING

Sec.

5911. Short title of subchapter.

5912. Power to adopt airport zoning regulations.

5913. Relation to other zoning regulations.

5914. Procedure for adoption of zoning regulations.

5915. Airport zoning requirements.

5916. Permits and variances.

5917. Administrative appeals.

5918. Judicial review.

5919. Notice to department.

5920. Acquisition of air rights.

Cross References. Subchapter B is referred to in section 14702 of Title 11 (Cities).

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