Upcoming conferences, meetings, workshops, plus links to other online calendars. Meetings are in Harrisburg unless otherwise noted. Go To: PA Environment Digest Calendar Page

· October 3 – Renewable Agriculture Energy Council meeting. Penn State University. Pasquerilla Center. 10:00.

· October 3 – House Game and Fisheries Committee meets to consider House Bill 2918 (B.Smith-R-York) authorizing the collection of transaction costs associated with the PA Automated Licensing Service. Room 302 Irvis Building. 9:30.

· October 3 - Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will meet to consider House Bill 2042 (Reichley-R-Berks) that would increase penalties for water pollution under the Clean Streams Law. Room 8E-A East Wing. 1:30.

· October 3 – DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee Ad-Hoc Subcommittee on Monitoring Technical Work Group. 12th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. 9:30.

· October 4 – House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1249 (Rubley-R-Chester) establishing uniform environmental covenants provisions, House Resolution 692 (Ross-R-Chester) directing the Committee to study and report on the methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, House Bill 936 (Hanna-D-Centre) providing for a review and update of state, county and local flood maps, House Bill 6 (Tigue-D-Lackawanna) increasing fees on nuclear power plant facilities. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. 9:00.

· October 5 – PA Energy Development Authority meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

· October 5 – House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee informational meeting on asbestos materials at the Bo-Rit site in Ambler Borough. Upper Dublin Township Municipal Building, Fort Washington. 11:30.

· October 10 – DEP Stormwater Manual Oversight Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 10:00.

· October 11 – House Finance Committee hearing to discuss new diesel technology tax credit. MACK Headquarters, 2100 MACK Blvd., Allentown. 9:00.

· October 11 – CANCELLED. DEP Sewage Advisory Committee meeting. The next scheduled meeting is March 21, 2007.

· October 13 - DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. 9:30.

· October 16 – Joint Air & Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee Environmental Issues Forum featuring a presentation by Alison Shuler, Coordinator of the Environmental Training Center at Penn State’s Middletown Campus which houses DEP’s Small Public Water Systems Technology Center. Room 205 Ryan Building. 12:00.

· October 17 –RESCHEDULED to a Conference Call. State Board for Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators.

· October 19 – RESCHEDULED. DEP Environmental Justice Advisory Board meeting was changed to this date from November 2. Rachel Carson Building. 9:15. Contact: Ayanna King, 717-783-5630.

· October 19 – Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee Forestry Task Force meeting. Penn Stater Hotel, State College. 10:00.

· October 31-November 5 – National Historic Preservation Conference. National Trust for Historic Preservation. Pittsburgh.

· November 20 – Environmental Issues Forum, Joint Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee featuring J. Kent Crawford, USGS, to discuss the emerging contaminants project. Room 205 Ryan Building. Noon.

· December 12 – CANCELLED. Coal and Clay Mine Subsidence Insurance Board meeting.

· December 14 – Coal and Clay Mine Subsidence Insurance Board meeting. 14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. 10:00.

DEP Calendar of Events

Watershed Events (courtesy PA Organization for Watersheds & Rivers)

Environmental Education Workshop/Training Calendar

(courtesy PA Center for Environmental Education)

Senate Committee Schedule

House Committee Schedule

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