This section gives you a continuously updated thumbnail sketch of issues to be considered in upcoming advisory committee meetings where the agendas have been released

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

-- Final Air Quality Title V fee changes

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

-- Joint meeting with DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board (12:30)

-- Presentation of draft changes to Community Environmental Project Policy

-- Presentation by Office of Health Equity, Department of Health

-- DEP Monthly Report to the CAC

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

-- Proposed High-Voltage Continuous Mining Machine regulation

-- Draft Standards for Surface Facilities regulation

-- Task Force Report: Draft Performance-Based Cable Safety Requirements regulation

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September 17-- Times/Locations Updated. Agenda Released. DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting.  2nd Floor Training Room, Rachel Carson Building-- 8:30, Room 105 Rachel Carson Building-- 11:00.

-- Monitoring matrix update

-- Ardmore Plaza update

-- Rx Disposal Handling

-- Meeting Acting DEP Secretary Abruzzo

-- Joint meeting with DEP Citizens Advisory Council (starting at 12:30)

-- Presentation of draft changes to Community Environmental Project Policy

-- Presentation by Office of Health Equity, Department of Health

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September 18-19-- CANCELED. 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.  The next scheduled meeting of the Board is December 4.  (formal notice) (cancellation notice)

September 19-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission meeting.  Binghamton State Office Building, 18th Floor, 44 Hawley St., Binghamton, NY. 9:00.  (formal notice)

-- Recognition of Paul Swartz, appointment of Andrew Dehoff as new executive director

-- Water withdrawal requests

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September 25-- NEW. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  (formal notice)

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

-- Consideration of Recycling Fund spending plan.

-- Updates on PennDOT, General Services MOUs

-- Update on TENORM natural gas study

-- Status of medical waste rulemaking

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October 3-- NEW. House Consumer Affairs Committee holds a hearing on the proposed shutdown of FirstEnergy coal-fired power plants in Western PA.  Monongahela Fire Company Hall, 451 W. Main St., Monongahela. 1:00.

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 8-- NEW. DEP Technical Advisory Committee on Diesel-Powered Equipment meeting. Fayette County Health Center, Uniontown.  10:00.

October 10-- NEW. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15.

October 15-- NEW. Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  9:00.

October 15-- NEW. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 11:00.

October 16-- NEW. DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting.  Susquehanna Room A, DEP Southcentral Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10:00.

October 16-- NEW. DEP State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00 

October 17-- NEW. DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

October 23-- NEW. DEP Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee meeting.  12th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

October 23-- NEW. DEP Cleanup Standards Scientific Advisory Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

October 24-- NEW. DEP Mining and Reclamation Advisory Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel carson Building. 10:00.

November 13--NEW. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting. Susquehanna Room B, DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 9:30.  (formal notice)

November 20-- CANCELED. DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting has been rescheduled for November 13.  (formal notice)

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