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Term
Description
Municipal Waste Planning,
Recycling, and Waste
Reduction Act (Act 101)
A 1988 act, Act 101 mandates recycling in the state’s
larger municipalities, requires counties to develop
municipal waste management plans, and provides for
grants to offset expenses.
Municipalities Planning
Code (MPC) (Act 247)
The MPC (Act of 1968, P.L.805, No.247), as
updated, empowers counties and municipalities,
individually or jointly, to plan their development and
to govern the same by zoning, subdivision and land
development ordinances, and additional tools.
National Flood Insurance
Program
A federal program created through the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968 which enables property
owners in participating communities to
purchase insurance protection from the government
against losses from flooding. This insurance is
designed to provide an insurance alternative to
disaster assistance to meet the escalating costs of
repairing damage to buildings and their contents
caused by floods.
National Highway System
(NHS)
A network of strategic nationwide highways,
including the Interstate Highway System and other
roads serving major airports, ports, rail or truck
terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and
other strategic transport facilities. The roads within
the system were identified by the United States
Department of Transportation in cooperation with the
states, local officials, and metropolitan planning
organizations and approved by the United States
Congress in 1995.
National Historic
Landmarks
Nationally significant historic places designated by
the Secretary of the Interior because they possess
exceptional value or quality in illustrating or
interpreting the heritage of the United States.
National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES)
As authorized by the Clean Water Act, the NPDES
permit program controls water pollution by
regulating point sources that discharge pollutants into
waters of the United States.
Term
Description
National Register of
Historic Places
Established in 1966, the nation’s official list
of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects
deemed worthy of preservation. A property listed in
the National Register, or located within a National
Register Historic District, may qualify for tax
incentives derived from the total value of expenses
incurred preserving the property.
Nonfamily
A household comprised of a group of unrelated
people or of one person living alone.
Nursing Homes
A facility licensed to provide health care under
medical supervision and continuous nursing care for
24 or more consecutive hours.
Office
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, land
occupied by office buildings and associated parking,
research and development facilities, hotels, and/or
convention centers
Personal Care Homes
A facility that is licensed to provide room and board
and to assure that assisted living services are
available when needed. Units typically house no
more than two residents and have a lockable door on
the unit entrance.
Personal Care
Subcontractor
Agencies which provide personnel for non-skilled
services to individuals in their homes or other
independent living environments. These services
may include assistance with self-administered
medications; personal care such as assistance with
personal hygiene, dressing, and feeding;
homemaking such as assistance with household tasks,
housekeeping, shopping, meal planning and
preparation, and transportation; companionship; and
respite care such as assistance and support provided
to the family.
