PRINTER'S NO. 3909
No. 567 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY ARGALL AND SHANER, SEPTEMBER 26, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, SEPTEMBER 26, 2000
A RESOLUTION
1 Designating the timing during which the Joint Legislative Air
2 and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee shall
3 complete its evaluation of the feasibility and advisability
4 of establishing a voluntary water quality credits and trading
5 program.
6 WHEREAS, House Resolution 361 provides for the Joint
7 Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation
8 Committee to conduct an evaluation of the feasibility and
9 advisability of establishing a voluntary water quality credits
10 and trading program; and
11 WHEREAS, House Resolution 361 was adopted on April 18, 2000;
12 and
13 WHEREAS, The 180-day time period specified in House
14 Resolution 361 for the committee to advise certain members of
15 the House of Representatives of its findings and recommendations
16 needs to be expanded; therefore be it
17 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives direct that upon
18 completion of the evaluation required by House Resolution 361
19 the committee advise, in writing, the chairman and minority
1 chairman of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee of
2 the House of Representatives and the chairman and minority
3 chairman of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee of
4 the Senate of its findings and make recommendations, if
5 necessary, for legislation to authorize and implement a
6 voluntary water quality credits and trading program in this
7 Commonwealth.
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