The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will meet on October 25 to consider six bills—

· House Bill 1902 (Rubley-R-Chester) extending the $2 per ton recycling fee for 10 years and requiring that Section 904 Recycling Performance Grants be spent on efforts to promote recycling and waste reduction;

· House Resolution 382 (Frankel-D-Allegheny) a concurrent resolution urging Congress to reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund;

· Senate Bill 410 (M.White-R-Venango) establishing the Pennsylvania Center for Environmental Education in law;

· House Bill 1051 (Sturla-D-Lancaster) establishing the Adopt-a-River Program in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources;

· House Bill 1494 (Stern-R-Blair) providing an Air Pollution Control Act exemption for small milling operations; and

· House Resolution 368 (Reichley-R-Berks) urging the Corps of Engineers to look into wet weather problems in the Little Lehigh Creek Watershed in Berks and Lehigh Counties.

10/21/2005