PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2298
PRINTER'S NO. 2542
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
149
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY RIGBY, PICKETT, STEPHENS, ZIMMERMAN, MOUL,
SCHEMEL, E. NELSON, O'NEAL, SANKEY, SCHMITT, KNOWLES,
STRUZZI, KEEFER, BURNS AND JONES, OCTOBER 25, 2021
AS AMENDED, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 15, 2021
A RESOLUTION
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to study
the costs and methods for permit holders to comply with the
proposed revisions to General Permit PAG-07, General Permit
PAG-08 and General Permit PAG-09 called for under
Pennsylvania's Phase 3 Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Implementation Plan and to provide for a moratorium on
revisions to General Permit PAG-07, General Permit PAG-08 and
General Permit PAG-09 until the Legislative Budget and
Finance Committee reports its findings and conclusions to the
House of Representatives.
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary,
with a watershed spanning 64,000 square miles, including parts
of six states and the District of Columbia; and
WHEREAS, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found,
through numerous studies of the Chesapeake Bay, that excess
nutrients from agricultural development, population growth and
discharges from wastewater treatment plants, along with over-
harvesting, habitat loss and disease, have contributed to an
overall decline in the aquatic health and environmental quality
of the bay; and
WHEREAS, Portions of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal rivers
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