PA Environment Digest

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced

Here are the Senate and House Calendars and Committee meetings showing bills of interest as well as a list of new environmental bills introduced--

Session Schedule

Here is the latest voting session schedule for the Senate and House--

Senate

October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31

November 1, 14, 15, 16

December 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14

House

October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31

November 1, 2, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23

December 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14

Bill Calendars

House (October 17): Senate Bill 303 (MJ White-R-Venango) providing for the disposition of fines under the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act; Senate Bill 304 (MJ White-R-Venango) requiring the posting of the state air quality implementation plan on the Internet; House Resolution 70 (Harhart-R-Lehigh) requesting the Department of Transportation to study the potential use of quarry and other mining waste in highway and civil engineering projects. <> Click Here for full House Bill Calendar.

Senate (October 17): Senate Bill 367 (D.White-R-Indiana) providing for the leasing of mineral rights on other state lands and those owned by the State System of Higher Education; House Bill 1054 (Mustio-R-Allegheny) further providing for the licensing of engineers, land surveyors and geologists. <> Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar.

Committees

House: the House Democratic Policy Committee holds a hearing on Marcellus Shale air quality issues at Delaware County Community College. <> Click Here for full House Committee Schedule.

Senate: <> Click Here for full Senate Committee Schedule.

Other: the Forestry Task Force, Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee in State College.

Bills Introduced

The following bills of interest were introduced this week--

Local Regulation Of Drilling: House Bill 13 (Hutchinson-R-Venango) amending the Oil and Gas Act providing for the state to supercede local regulation of drilling in the Allegheny National Forest.

Fracking Fluids: House Bill 24 (Everett-R-Lycoming) require full public disclosure of the chemical composition of the fluid used to hydro-fracture the shale in the production of Marcellus natural gas.

Well Pad Standards: House Bill 29 (F.Keller-R-Snyder) requiring the Environmental Quality Board to set gas well pad construction standards.

Gas Well Drilling Standards: House Bill 1887 (Baker-R-Tioga) setting additional environmental and location standards for Marcellus Shale wells, increasing penalties, authorizing an alternative to bonding and requiring the posting of certain well information.

Flood-Damaged Highway Capital Budget: Senate Bill 1268 (Gordner-R-Columbia) providing for the itemization of flood-damaged highways Capital Budget, Senate Bill 1269 (Yaw-R-Bradford) providing for adoption of capital projects for flood damaged highways and flood mitigation projects

Regulatory Impacts: Senate Bill 1273 (McIlhinney-R-Bucks) requiring the review of regulations for their impact on small businesses and granting pre-enforcement review of regulations by small businesses aggrieved parties (companion to House Bill 1349 which just passed the House).

Alternative Energy Portfolio: Senate Bill 1283 (Argall-R-Schuylkill) further providing for energy credit contracts under the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act.

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