Aside from the drillers themselves, there's probably no group of people more impacted by Pennsylvania's new natural gas drilling law, Act 13, than township supervisors. The new impact fee will inject hundreds of thousands of dollars into their municipal budgets. Statewide zoning standards will either increase or scale back townships' drilling regulations, depending on how robust their existing local ordinances are.
Township supervisors got the opportunity to ask Department of Environmental Protection and Public Utility Commission officials about the new legislation, during a session at the Pennsylvania Township Supervisors Association's annual conference in Hershey.
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