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Citizens Advisory Council
- The Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) was created in 1971 by an act of the legislature, while part of the Department of Environmental Resources. The CAC is charged with reviewing all environmental laws of the Commonwealth and making appropriate suggestions for their revision, modification and codification; considering, studying, and reviewing the work of the Department of Environmental Protection; advising the Department, on request, and making recommendations upon its initiative, for the improvement of the work of the Department; reporting annually to the governor and to the general assembly; and consulting with the Department in developing state plans and regulations to implement the federal Clean Air Act. The council is composed of nineteen members, eighteen appointed volunteers and the secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. Five council members are elected to serve as the only citizen representatives to the twenty-member Environmental Quality Board, the only non-governmental representatives on the Department of Environmental Protection's rulemaking body. In addition, four are elected to serve on the Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board. The council also sits on the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee and the Solid Waste Advisory Committee.