Upcoming legislative meetings, conferences, workshops, plus links to other online calendars.  Meetings are in Harrisburg unless otherwise noted.  NEW means new from last week.  Go to the online Calendar webpage.

Click on Agenda Released on calendar entries to see the NEW meeting agendas published this week.

August 26-- House Game & Fisheries and Environmental Resources & Energy Committees hold a joint hearing on House Bill 1576 (Pyle-R-Armstrong) establishing a procedure for listing threatened and endangered species- summary.  Empire Beauty School Auditorium, 396 Pottsville St Clair Highway, Pottsville.  2:00.

August 27-- House Game & Fisheries and Environmental Resources & Energy Committees hold a joint informational meeting to receive a presentation by the Game Commission on the oil and gas lease program.  Ramada Inn, 101 S. Progress Ave., Pottsville.  9:00.

August 27-- Agenda Released.  Environmental Quality Board meeting. The agenda is expected to include proposed Chapter 78 drilling regulation changes. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00. (formal notice)

August 27-- NEW. Agenda Released. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

September 13-- Senate Game and Fisheries Committee holds a hearing on elk management and the 100th anniversary of the reintroduction of elk into Pennsylvania.  Elk County Visitors Center, Benezette. 2:00.

September 10-- CANCELED. DEP Storage Tank Advisory Committee meeting. The next scheduled meeting is December 3. (formal notice)

September 10-- Delaware River Basin Commission holds a hearing on proposed changes to water quality, water code and the DRBC Comprehensive Water plan related to PCBs.  Agenda & Background.  Goddard Conference Room, DRBC, 25 State Police Dr., West Trenton, NJ.  1:00.   (formal notice)

September 11-12-- NEW. Delaware River Basin Commission hearing/meeting- Click Here for updated agenda information. The Enterprise Center, Burlington County College, 3331 Route 38, Mount Laurel, NJ.  (formal notice + tentative agenda)

September 17-- Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

September 17-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  11:00.

September 17 -- DEP Board of Coal Mine Safety meeting. DEP Mine Rescue Training Facility, 286 Industrial Park Road, Ebensburg. 10:00.

September 17-- DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting.  Delaware Room, 16th Floor Rachel Carson Building.  8:30. 

September 18-19-- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board Act 13 drilling regulation update subcommittee meetings on public resource protection, pre-hydraulic fracturing assessment, waste management at well sites and water supply restoration standards.Room 105, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg.  10:00 September 18, 8:30 September 19. (formal notice)

September 26-- DEP Solid Waste Advisory Committee and Recycling Fund Advisory Committee joint meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00..  (formal notice)

September 30-- Environmental Issues Forum, Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee will feature Dr. David J. Nowak, Ph.D, project leader for the USDA Forest Service’s Northern Research Station, will discuss the agency’s innovative “i-Tree” program and how communities can get help in planning how best to make trees work for them.  Room G-50 Irvis Building, Noon.

October 4-- DEP Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  10:00.

October 8-- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  10:00.

October 18-- Senate and House Game and Fisheries Committees hold a joint hearing on use of Lake Erie permit funds and Fish and Boat Commission fee expansions.  Erie Yacht Club, 1 Ravine Drive, Erie. 9:00.

October 21-- Environmental Issues Forum, Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee will feature Pennsylvania hydro-geologist Bruce Leavitt will discuss his “back to the future” technology – known as “trompe” technology, dating back to the 16th century - that he has rediscovered and is using to remediate acid mine drainage in an energy saving, cost-efficient and effective way. (LTBA) 

DEP Calendar of Events  [Visit DEP’s new and improved Calendar]

Note: The Environmental Education Workshop Calendar is no longer available from the PA Center for Environmental Education because funding for the Center was eliminated in the FY 2011-12 state budget.  The PCEE website was also shutdown, but some content was moved to the PA Association of Environmental Educators' website.

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