Senate Appropriations Committee Schedules Marcellus Shale, Flood Relief Bills

The Senate Appropriations Committee has scheduled a meeting for November 14 to consider Senate Bill 1100 (Scarnati-R-Jefferson) amending the Oil and Gas Act to include additional environmental protection measures for Marcellus Shale drilling and a drilling impact fee.
            The Committee is also set to consider a package of flood relief bills: Senate Bill 1264 (Baker-R-Luzerne) enacting the Flood Relief Act for September 2011 making an appropriation of $20 million for individual assistance; Senate Bill 1266 (Gordner-R-Columbia) authorizing the incurring of debt to fund flood damage recovery projects; Senate Bill 1267 (Blake-D-Lackawanna) authorizing real estate tax abatement as a result of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee;  Senate Bill 1268 (Gordner-R-Columbia) authorizing the incurring of debt to repair flood damaged highways; Senate Bill 1269 (Yaw-R-Bradford) adoption of capital projects to repair or replace flood damaged highways and bridges; Senate Bill 1271 (Yudichak-D-Luzerne) an itemized list of flood damaged highway and bridge repair projects; Senate Bill 1297 (Baker-R-Luzerne) establishing the Small Business Flood Relief Program of 2011; and Senate Bill 1322 (Yaw-R-Bradford) establishing the Agriculture Disaster Recovery Program to provide disaster assistance to agricultural operations.
            The meeting will be held off-the-floor in the Rules Committee Room.
            Sen. Jake Corman (R-Centre) serves as Majority Chair of the Committee and Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia) serves as Minority Chair.


11/14/2011

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