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House of Representatives
Session of 2021 - 2022 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 18, 2020 03:41 PM
From: Representative Jennifer O'Mara
To: All House members
Subject: Public Natural Resources Trust Fund
 
Article 1, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution requires the Commonwealth to conserve and maintain the environment for all of its citizens. It is our duty to uphold that directive to the best of our abilities not only because it is constitutionally required, but because we owe it to future generations of Pennsylvania citizens.
 
In order to better care for our environment, I will be introducing legislation to create a Public Natural Resources Trust Fund, which would receive money from oil and gas developed on the over 385,000 acres of Pennsylvania land leased for such development. The money would be put into a trust fund and used for various conservation projects carried out by the Pennsylvania Departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture. These investments would benefit state parks and forests, county and municipal land, organizations that hold land for public benefit, and nonprofit organizations that work on environmental conservation, restoration, protection, and recreation.
 
Pennsylvania is a beautiful place to live, work, and raise a family. I believe we have a constitutional responsibility to keep it that way through conservation and environmental protection efforts. I hope you will join me in support of this important legislation.

Previous Co-sponsors: ULLMAN, MULLERY, ISAACSON, STURLA, KINSEY,
A. DAVIS, SAPPEY, WARREN, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS, ZABEL,

YOUNGBLOOD, McCLINTON, MURT AND NEILSON



Introduced as HB2377