PRINTER'S NO. 2530
No. 2049 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY PETRARCA, DeMEDIO, KOLTER, MANDERINO, BELARDI,
CORDISCO, STAIRS, TADDONIO, CAWLEY, CAPPABIANCA, BLAUM,
KUKOVICH AND LIVENGOOD, NOVEMBER 9, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, NOVEMBER 9, 1981
AN ACT
1 Providing for a study by the Department of Environmental
2 Resources of the feasibility of establishing a Pennsylvania
3 Youth Conservation Corps.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Study by department.
7 The Department of Environmental Resources is hereby directed
8 to conduct a study of the costs, benefits and general
9 feasibility of a conservation camp program, to be known as the
10 Pennsylvania Youth Conservation Corps. The purpose of this
11 program would be to restore those areas of the Commonwealth and
12 its natural resources degraded by coal mining operations,
13 erosion and pollution, similar to the program of the former
14 Federal Civilian Conservation Corps.
15 Section 2. Report to General Assembly.
16 The department shall make its report to the Governor and to
17 the General Assembly within one year of the date of final
18 enactment.
1 Section 3. Effective date.
2 This act shall take effect immediately.
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