(a) Notice to board.--The department shall notify and provide the board with any regulatory proposal or proposed general permit which would regulate agriculture or any proposed technical guidance that would affect agriculture.

(b) Deleted by 2018, Oct. 24, P.L. 1179, No. 162, § 2.1, effective in 60 days [Dec. 24, 2018].

(b.1) Board review.--The department may not publish any proposed regulation or proposed general permit that regulates agriculture or proposed technical guidance that affects agriculture prior to:

(c) Inclusion of comments with proposed rulemaking.--The department shall include any written comments of the board, received prior to the department's submission of a proposed rulemaking package to the Environmental Quality Board, as part of its submission to the Environmental Quality Board.

(d) Exceptions.--The requirements of this section shall not apply to regulations with mandatory statutory deadlines, to regulations required to be adopted by court order, to emergency regulations, to final regulations adopted pursuant to section 204 of the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769, No.240),¹ referred to as the Commonwealth Documents Law, or where interim regulations are otherwise authorized by statute. The department shall advise the board as soon as possible of the development of regulations identified in this subsection which would regulate agriculture.