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.

June 16-- Agenda Released. DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting. DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10:00.

-- Chesapeake Bay Program BMP Update

-- Technical Service Providers Update

-- Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Update

-- EPA Waters of the U.S. Regulation

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June 17--  CANCELED. Environmental Quality Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. (formal notice)

June 17-- Time Change.  Agenda Released. DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. (formal notice of time change)

-- Draft comments on DEP’s Act 54 Longwall Mining Impact Report

-- Chesapeake Bay Agreement Milestones

-- Agricultural Best Management Practices

-- Regional Agricultural Watershed Assessment Program

-- Council members will also participate in a field tour of agricultural BMPs on a farm in Cumberland County hosted by Council member Bill Fink

-- DEP June Report To Council

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June 18-- Agenda Released. DEP Small Water Systems Technical Assistance Center Board meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

-- There are no specific items on the agenda

-- Handout on pre-draft proposed regulation updating Chapter 109 Safe Drinking Water regs

-- Powerpoint presentation on proposed revised total coliform rule

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June 18-- Agenda Released. DEP State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

-- Review of new, upgrades and reciprocity applications

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June 24-- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 25-- Agenda Released. DEP State Board for Certification Of Sewage Enforcement Operators meeting.  Conference Room 11B, Rachel Carson Building.  10:00.

-- SEO Board powers and duties presentation

-- Board member John Seamans term expiring

-- Certification of new SEOs

-- Update on PA Townships Assn. Pre-Certification Academy Soils Training

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June 26-- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting to review summary of comments DEP received on the proposed changes to Chapter 78 regulations.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

June 26-- NEW. DEP hearing on chemical contamination cleanup in O'Hara Township, Allegheny County. Aspinwall Borough building, 217 Commercial Avenue, Aspinwall. 6:30. (formal notice)

June 26-- NEW. DEP Open House on Permitting Activities In Streams, Wetlands.  DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (formal notice)

July 9-- DEP Sewage Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:30.

July 9-- DEP Technical Advisory Committee on Diesel-Powered Equipment meeting.  Fayette County Health Center, Uniontown.  10:00.

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

July 15-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

July 16-- DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:30.

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

July 30-- DCNR Natural Gas Advisory Committee meeting. LTBA.

August 5-- DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting.  Delaware Room, Rachel Carson Building. 8:30.

August 7-- DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15.

August 12-- DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

August 20-- DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting.  DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 10:00.

September 9-- DEP Board Of Coal Mine Safety meeting.  DEP Cambria Office, 286 Industrial Park Road, Ebensburg. 10:00.

October 15-- DEP Cleanup Standards Scientific Advisory Board. 14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 9:00.

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