Water Quantity," the Susquehanna River Basin Commission's
purpose and objective is to remain in the agency's lane of
expertise. The SRBC states; "when a regulatory agency chooses to
stray out of its lane of expertise and mission, it can have
profound programmatic and legal consequences. Most important,
however, I believe it does the public a disservice"; and
WHEREAS, The residents and property owners in the
Commonwealth have suffered and continue to suffer from the
disservice that is a consequence of inaction on behalf of the
DRBC; and
WHEREAS, The DRBC should follow a similar regulatory path as
the Susquehanna River Basin Commission and focus on its mission
as a water management agency to assure the long-term balance
between healthy ecosystems and economic vitality; and
WHEREAS, The DRBC should abandon any proposed plans to
regulate natural gas drilling beyond the already established
functions that focus on water quantity and water quality data
collection and analysis; therefore be it and
WHEREAS, Nothing in this resolution supersedes section 27 of
Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which states:
"The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the
preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic
values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural
resources are the common property of all of the people,
including generations yet to come. As trustee of these
resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for
the benefit of all the people"; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge the Delaware
River Basin Commission to suspend consideration of a moratorium
on natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin.
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