The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets on September 23 to consider legislation adopting an electric transmission line compact, establishing a Coal Methane Review Board, funding waste tire removal, brownfields redevelopment, encouraging reclamation of mine sites with biomass and a resolution to review the Growing Greener II bond program.

The bills include:

· House Bill 2480 (DeWeese-D-Greene) providing for the adoption of the Mid-Atlantic Area National Electric Transmission Corridor Compact;

· Special Session House Bill 55 (Brooks-R-Crawford) providing incentives for using switchgrass and other biofuels feedstock to reclaim abandoned mine lands;

· Special Session House Resolution 107 (not yet online);

· House Resolution 883 (Harper-R-Montgomery) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to review where grants were made under the Growing Greener II program;

· Senate Bill 1330 (D.White-R-Indiana) establishing the Coal Methane Review Board;

· Senate Bill 1062 (Wonderling-R-Montgomery) reimbursing brownfield developers for certain costs; and

· Senate Bill 1050 (Baker-R-Luzerne) establishing the Used Tire Pile Remediation Account and making an appropriation.

9/19/2008