The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee Wednesday reported out two additional bills creating a new PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council within DEP and a second bill making a correction in the law allowing other state agencies to allow drilling on their land.  The bills were--

-- Crude Advisory Council: Senate Bill 1310 (Hutchinson-R-Venango) creating the PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council within DEP- sponsor summary-- was amended and reported out; and

-- Drilling On Other State Lands: Senate Bill 1443 (White-R-Indiana) amending the Indigenous Mineral Resources Development Act to authorized state agencies (other than DCNR) to release mineral rights whether they owned the surface rights or not was amended and reported out.

The bills are now on the Senate Calendar for consideration.

Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) serves as Majority Chair of the  Committee and Sen. John Yudichak (D-Luzerne) serves as Minority Chair.

6/30/2014