The DEP Citizens Advisory Council will meet January 21 to continue drafting its transition report to the incoming Wolf Administration and hear a presentation on the implementation of Act 162 changing stream buffer requirements.
The Council adopted Part 1 of its Transition Report at it last meeting in November touching on issues like agency leadership, intergenerational excellence and professional development, management information technology systems, budgetary resources and trends, public credibility and public involvement, rebuilding bipartisan support for environmental programs and multi-state regional cooperation.
Council will discuss Part 2 of the report considering issues like priority uses for revenues for a proposed natural gas severance tax, water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, water resources management, climate change, abandoned mine reclamation, sewage management, Chesapeake Bay TMDL, water well construction standards legislation, federal/state relations and legacy leadership and employee morale.
The agenda also includes a presentation on DCNR’s Forestry Plant regulations.
DEP provided Council with a copy of its January report highlighting important activities in the agency featuring articles on--
-- TENORM Study: DEP’s report on naturally occurring radiation in natural gas development operations is now being peer reviewed and is expected to be released in January.
-- Nutrient Credit Trading: The true-up period for the 2014 Water Year is completed under the Nutrient Credit Trading Program. A total of 1,889,079 nitrogen and 109,791 phosphorus credits were verified, of which 803,685 nitrogen and 85,079 phosphorus credits were registered, meaning they were sold to a wastewater treatment system for compliance purposes.
Click Here for available handouts. For more information, visit the DEP Citizens Advisory Council webpage.
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