This section lists House and Senate Committee meetings, DEP and other public hearings and meetings and other interesting environmental events.

NEW means new from last week. [Agenda Not Posted] means not posted within 2 weeks of the advisory committee meeting.  Go to the online Calendar webpage for updates.

August 27-- CBF-PA Heroes On The Water Kayaking, Fly Fishing Event.  Shank’s Mare Outfitters, Wrightsville, York County. 1:00 p.m.

August 27-- Grey Towers Heritage Assn. Summer Lecture Series: The Spirituality Of Gifford Pinchot. Grey Towers National Historic Site, Milford, Pike County.  5:30 p.m.

August 29-- NEW. House Democratic Policy Committee hearing on biosolids and the land application of sewage sludge. Quality Inn, 971 N. Eagle Valley Road in Milesburg, Centre County.  2:00.

August 29-- DEP Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Webinar: Area of Review 1:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m. [1.5 hour presentation followed by Q/A] Click Here to register.

August 30-- CANCELED. DEP Small Water Systems Technical Assistance Center Board meeting. The meeting has been rescheduled for September 12. DEP Contact: Dawn Hissner, DEP Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, 717-772-2189 or dhissner@pa.gov.  (formal notice)

August 30-- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Strategies for Financing Your Stormwater Project Workshop.  Derry Township Municipal Complex, 600 Clearwater Road, Hershey, Dauphin County. 10:00 a.m.

August 30-- DEP Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Webinar: Erosion Control, Site Restoration And Borrow Pits from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

August 31-- DEP public hearing on proposed delegation request for the federal Sewage Sludge Incineration Regulation Program.  12th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg.  10:00 a.m. until noon. [A copy of the delegation request is posted here.]  (formal notice)

August 31-- DEP Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Webinar: Protection of Water Supplies from 10:00 a.m. to noon  Click Here to register.

August 31-- DEP Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Webinar: Waste Management - Disposal from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

August 31-- Roundtable Discussion On NWF Changing Tides Along The Eastern Seaboard.  John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge At Tinicum, 8601 Lindbergh Blvd. in Philadelphia. 2:30 to 3:30.

September 1-- DEP Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Webinar: Application Requirements & Public Resources 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Click Here to register.

September 3-- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary International Vulture Awareness Day. Kempton, Berks County.

September 6-- CANCELED. DEP Storage Tank Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Charles Swokel, Bureau of Environmental Cleanup and Brownfields, 717-772-5806 or send email to: cswokel@pa.gov.   (formal notice)

September 7-- Schuylkill Action Network Tour Of Upper Schuylkill River Restoration Sites. Cabela’s In Hamburg, Berks County. 10:00 a.m.

September 7-- NEW. Stroud Water Research Center. Webinar: Introduction To The Leaf Pack Network. 3:30, 6:30.

September 8-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission meeting.  The Otesaga Resort Hotel, 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY. 9:00. (formal notice)

September 9-October 9-- Pittsburgh’s Re:NEW Sustainability Festival .

September 10-- Keystone Trails Association Trail Challenge For The Lower Susquehanna.  Susquehannock State Park, Lancaster County.

September 10-- Philadelphia Water Fun Fishing Fest On The Schuylkill River.

September 10-- NEW.  Gifford Pinchot’s Grey Towers  Movable Feast: Pinchot Family & Milford Historic Walking Tour.  Milford, Pike County.  10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

September 10-17-- NEW. Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Allegheny River Cleanup.

September 12-- DEP Small Water Systems Technical Assistance Center Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg.  9:00. DEP Contact: Dawn Hissner, DEP Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, 717-772-2189 or dhissner@pa.gov.  (formal notice)

September 12-- NEW. Capital RC&D: Marketing Plan Key To Successful Farm Business Webinar. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

September 12-- NEW. Nature Abounds PA Senior Environment Corps/York Audubon Society Water Monitoring Workshop. Penn State Extension Office, York.  9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

September 13-- DEP Board Of Coal Mine Safety meeting. DEP Cambria Office, 286 Industrial Park Rd., Ebensburg.  10:00.  DEP Contact: Allison Gaida, Bureau of Mine Safety, 724-404-3147, agaida@pa.gov. (formal notice)

September 13-- NEW. State Electronics Challenge Sustainability & Your Office Equipment Webinar.  3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

September 14-- CANCELED. DEP Sewage Advisory Committee meeting. The date of the next meeting has not been scheduled.  DEP Contact: John Diehl, Bureau of Point and NonPoint Source Management, 717-783-2941 or send email to:  jdiehl@pa.gov.   (formal notice) 

September 14-- Delaware River Basin Commission holds a business meeting on water withdrawal requests. Historic Hotel Bethlehem, 437 Main St., Bethlehem.  5:00.  (formal notice)

September 14-- Monongahela River Town Summit. California University of PA, California.

September 15-- NEW. Senate Republican Policy Committee holds a hearing on Waterfront Development Tax Credit Program.  Talen Energy Stadium, 1 Stadium Drive, Chester, Delaware County. 11:00.

September 15-18-- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Women and Their Woods Educational Retreat.  Milanville, Wayne County.

September 17-- PA Resources Council Household Chemical Collection Event.  Allegheny County, South Park Wave Pool parking lot.  9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

September 17-- NEW. Stroud Water Research Center. Webinar: Slimy Leaves For Healthy Streams, Leaf Pack Experiment Stream Ecology Kit.  9:30, 3:30.

September 17-- Brandywine Conservancy Bike The Brandywine.  Chester County.

September 17-- Grey Towers Heritage Assn. Summer Lecture Series: The Clearest Way Into The Universe: Nature’s Meaning In The Photographs Of Ansel Adams.  Grey Towers National Historic Site, Milford, Pike County.  5:30 p.m.

September 19-- NEW. Pennsylvania Lake Erie Forum. Erie County Conservation District, 1927 Wager Road in Erie. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

September 19-20-- Registration Open. 4th Annual Delaware River Watershed Forum.  Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center, Blue Bell, Montgomery County.

September 20-- Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. DEP Contact: Laura Edinger, Environmental Quality Board, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-3277, edinger@pa.gov.

September 20-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Katie Hetherington Cunfer, Citizens Advisory Council, P. O. Box 8459, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8459, 717-705-2693, khethering@pa.gov.

September 20- Laurel Highlands Trail Summit.  Meyersdale, Somerset County.

September 20-- PA Chapter of the American Water Works Association Small Water System Workshop On Improving Water Quality.  PA American Water Offices, 852 Wesley Dr., Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County. 8:30 to 4:30.

September 21-- DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meets. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 9:30.  DEP Contact: Lee McDonnell, 717-787-5017 or send email to: lmcdonnell@pa.gov.  (formal notice)

September 21-- DEP State Board for Certification Of Sewage Enforcement Officers meeting.  11th Floor Conference Room B, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Kristen Szwajkowski, Bureau of Point Non-Point Source Management, 717-772-2186 or send email to:  kszwajkows@pa.gov.

September 21-- DEP Hearing On Proposed NPDES Water Quality Permit For Consol Coal Company for the Bailey Coal Refuse Disposal Areas No. 1 and 2.  Morris Township Community Center, Nineveh, Greene County.  1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Copies of the draft NPDES permit are on file for public review, by appointment, at the Department of Environmental Protection, District Mining Operations, 25 Technology Drive, California Technology Park, Coal Center, PA 15423, Phone: 724-769-1100.  Click Here for more information.  (formal notice Aug. 13 PA Bulletin, page 5024)

September 21-22-- Shale Insight Conference.  Pittsburgh.

September 22-- DEP Recycling Fund Advisory & Solid Waste Advisory Committees meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Keith Ashley, Bureau of Waste Management, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-787-2553, riashley@pa.gov.

September 22-- CANCELED. DEP Laboratory Accreditation Advisory Committee meeting.  Bureau of Laboratories Building, Room 206, 2575 Interstate Dr., Harrisburg. DEP Contact: Aaren Alger at 717-346-822 or send email to: aaalger@pa.gov.  (formal notice)

September 22-- Registration Open. Penn State Extension Dive Deeper III Water Educator Summit. The Central Hotel & Conference Center, Harrisburg.

September 24-- Registration Open. Schuylkill River Heritage Area Ride The Schuylkill River Trail From Reading To Pottstown.

October 1-- PA Resources Council Hard-To-Recycle Collection Event. Robinson  Township, Allegheny County.

October 1-- Pittsburgh Solar Tour.  1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

October 1-- NEW.  Gifford Pinchot’s Grey Towers  Movable Feast: Pinchot Family & Milford Historic Walking Tour.  Milford, Pike County.  10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

October 6-- NEW. Delaware Estuary Partnership Celebrates 20 Years Of Cleaner Water. Auletto Caterers in Deptford, New Jersey. 5:00 to 8:30 p.m.

October 7-- DEP Low-Level Radioactive Waste Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Rich Janati, Bureau of Radiation Protection, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-787-2147, rjanati@pa.gov.

October 8-- PA Resources Council Household Chemical Collection Event. Beaver County, Bradys Run Park Recycling Center.  9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

October 12-- DEP Technical Advisory Committee On Diesel-Powered Equipment meeting. DEP New Stanton Office, Westmoreland Room, 131 Broadview Road, New Stanton. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Allison Gaida, Bureau of Mine Safety, 724-404-3147, agaida@pa.gov.

October 13-- DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15.  DEP Contact: Nancy Herb, Bureau of Air Quality, 717-783-9269 or send email to: nherb@pa.gov.

October 13-- DEP State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater Systems Operators meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Cheri Sansoni, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, Operator Certification, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-5158, csansoni@pa.gov.

October 14-- Governor’s Office State Planning Board.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.  Harrisburg. 10:00 a.m.  Click Here for more information.

October 18-- Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. DEP Contact: Laura Edinger, Environmental Quality Board, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-3277, edinger@pa.gov.

October 18-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Katie Hetherington Cunfer, Citizens Advisory Council, P. O. Box 8459, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8459, 717-705-2693, khethering@pa.gov.

October 20-- PennTAP Webinar: Save Money Through Energy Management Systems. Noon to 1:00.

October 20-- Northeast PA Environmental Partners Awards Dinner.  Woodlands Inn & Resort, Wilkes-Barre.

October 21-- Pennsylvania Wilds Fall Biking Seminar. Allegheny Grille, Foxburg, Clarion County.

October 22-- Natural Lands Trust ChesLen Chase For Open Space. Chester County.

October 24-- Environmental Issues Forum of the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee feature a presentation on Pennsylvania’s Wildlife Action Plan by the Fish and Boat and Game Commissions.  Room 8E-A East Wing of the Capitol Building in Harrisburg. Noon.

October 26-- DEP Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee meeting.  12th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Nancy Herb, Bureau of Air Quality, 717-783-9269 or send email to: nherb@pa.gov.

October 26-28-- Pennsylvania Brownfields Conference.  Lancaster Convention Center, Lancaster.

October 27-- DEP Agricultural Advisory Board meeting. Susquehanna Room A, DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg. 9:00.  DEP Contact: Tom Juengst, Bureau of Clean Water, 717-783-7577 or send email to: tjuengt@pa.gov.   (formal notice) 

November 2-- DEP Conventional Oil and Gas Advisory Committee meeting. Location To Be Announced.  10:00. DEP Contact: Kurt Klapkowski, Oil and Gas Program, by calling 717-783-9438 or send email to: kklapkowsk@pa.gov.

November 3- DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting. Location To Be Announced.  10:00. DEP Contact: Kurt Klapkowski, Oil and Gas Program, by calling 717-783-9438 or send email to: kklapkowsk@pa.gov.

November 4-- PA Environmental Council. Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition Summit.  Regional Learning Alliance, Cranberry Township, Butler County.

November 10-- PA Resources Council Annual Awards Dinner. Villanova University Conference Center, Philadelphia.

November 11-12-- 11th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium.  Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Union County.

November 15-- DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting.  Delaware Conference Room, 16th Floor, Rachel Carson Building.  8:30.  DEP Contact: Carl Jones, Director, DEP’s Office of Environmental Justice, 484-250-5818 or send email to: caejone@pa.gov.

November 15- Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. DEP Contact: Laura Edinger, Environmental Quality Board, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-3277, edinger@pa.gov.

November 15-- DEP Citizens Advisory Council.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Katie Hetherington Cunfer, Citizens Advisory Council, P. O. Box 8459, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8459, 717-705-2693, khethering@pa.gov.

November 16-- DEP Cleanup Standards Scientific Advisory Board meeting.  14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building.  10:00.  DEP Contact: Michael Maddigan, Land Recycling Program, 717-783-1566 or email: mmaddigan@pa.gov.

December 6-- DEP Storage Tank Advisory Committee meeting.  Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Charles Swokel, Bureau of Environmental Cleanup and Brownfields, 717-772-5806 or send email to: cswokel@pa.gov.

December 8-- DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:15.  DEP Contact: Nancy Herb, Bureau of Air Quality, 717-783-9269 or send email to: nherb@pa.gov.

December 13-- DEP Board Of Coal Mine Safety meeting. DEP Cambria Office, 286 Industrial Park Rd., Ebensburg.  10:00.  DEP Contact: Allison Gaida, Bureau of Mine Safety, 724-404-3147, agaida@pa.gov.

December 14-- DEP State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater Systems Operators meeting.  10th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Cheri Sansoni, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, Operator Certification, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-5158, csansoni@pa.gov. 

December 15-- PennTAP Webinar: E3 Overview: Economy-Energy-Environment. Noon to 1:00.

December 20-- Environmental Quality Board meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:00. DEP Contact: Laura Edinger, Environmental Quality Board, 400 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101, 717-772-3277, edinger@pa.gov.

December 21-- DEP State Board for Certification Of Sewage Enforcement Officers meeting.  11th Floor Conference Room B, Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.  DEP Contact: Kristen Szwajkowski, Bureau of Point Non-Point Source Management, 717-772-2186 or send email to:  kszwajkows@pa.gov.

February 16-- PennTAP Webinar: Pollution Prevention: Lean Manufacturing With A Focus On Food Manufacturing. Noon to 1:00.

March 23-24-- Westmoreland County Conservation District 2017 Engineers’ Workshop. Fred Rogers Center, a LEED Gold Certified building at St. Vincent College, Latrobe.

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Check the PA Environmental Council Bill Tracker for the status and updates on pending state legislation and regulations that affect environmental and conservation efforts in Pennsylvania.

DEP Regulations In Process

Proposed Regulations Open For Comment - DEP webpage

Submit Comments on Proposals Through DEP’s eComment System

Proposed Regulations With Closed Comment Periods - DEP webpage

Recently Finalized Regulations - DEP webpage

DEP Regulatory Update - DEP webpage

July 2016 DEP Regulatory Agenda - PA Bulletin, page 3731

DEP Technical Guidance In Process

Draft Technical Guidance Documents - DEP webpage

Technical Guidance Comment Deadlines - DEP webpage

Submit Comments on Proposals Through DEP’s eComment System

Recently Closed Comment Periods For Technical Guidance - DEP webpage

Technical Guidance Recently Finalized - DEP webpage

Copies of Final Technical Guidance - DEP webpage

DEP Non-Regulatory/Technical Guidance Documents Agenda (July 2016) - DEP webpage

Other DEP Proposals For Public Review

Other Proposals Open For Public Comment - DEP webpage

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Recently Closed Comment Periods For Other Proposals - DEP webpage

Other Proposals Recently Finalized - DEP webpage

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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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