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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Opens Marcellus Shale Office In Northern PA
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission this week announced the start-up of its first-ever field office aimed exclusively at enhancing compliance through increased on-site inspections, particularly of natural gas well development projects in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions.
The field office is located on 1760 Elmira Street, Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
This location strategically places SRBC’s compliance staff in and around the most active drilling areas in the upper basin region. It also allows staff to follow up more quickly on problems and concerns reported by basin citizens in Pennsylvania and New York.
Prior to the Sayre field office, staff drove from SRBC’s headquarters in Harrisburg to inspect natural gas well development sites and to meet with citizens and industry officials.
“Having our compliance staff closer to project areas to conduct inspections and to the citizens affected by the boom in natural gas drilling is intended to enhance our effectiveness and day-to-day efficiency,” said SRBC Executive Director Paul Swartz.
“For each and every water withdrawal or water use project the Commission approves, there are many subsequent and ongoing compliance requirements we impose on project sponsors such as monitoring and reporting. Because we take very seriously our obligations to verifying compliance, the Commission took the extraordinary and historic step of establishing the Sayre field office.”
The Sayre office is currently staffed by three SRBC compliance employees. Given that staff members are largely out in the field conducting inspections, interested public, industry officials or others wanting to meet with staff on compliance matters need to call for an appointment Monday through Wednesday at 570-731-4839 or by emailing Mr. Eric Roof, SRBC Director of Compliance and Enforcement, by sending email to: eroof@srbc.net. Limited, set office hours that do not require prior appointment are on Tuesdays from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
SRBC will continue to have compliance staff located in the Harrisburg office. Visit the SRBC Marcellus Shale webpage for more information.
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5/17/2010 |
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