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A View From The Governor's Office
By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer
Two events of special signi
ficance to the Pennsylvania’s
new Golden Age of Conserva
tion occurred last week.
First, on Thursday, I travel
ed to Johnstown to sign the bill
to pay the second installment
on our $5OO million, ten-year
land and water reclamation
program at the site of a future
add mine diainage treatment
plant.
Second, in Harrisburg Fri
day night, I had the high honor
of telling the annual banquet of
the Pennsylvania Federation of
Sportsman’s Clubs that, in the
future, Sandy Creek State Park
now under construction in Mer
cer County will be known as the
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"Maurice K. Goddaid State
Park ”
I purposely chose the Johns
town site on which to sign HB
886 appropriating another $lOO
million of our $5OO million con
servation fund to dramatize
Pennsylvania’s long-range pro
gram to both protect and ic
store our precious natural re
sources.
JFor, not only does that site
illustrate what can be done io
eliminate existing acid mine
drainage from our streams but
it also is a prime example of the
need to be constantly ready to
take immediate measures in
cases of future emergency.
It was on July 24 of this year
that rising waters in an aban
doned underground mine forced
a blow-out of acid mine drain
age which caused considerable
damage to seveial residential
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Under HB 886, bond issue
ffiloney'toill be used to begin a
long-range program culminating
in construction of a mine drain
age treatment facility to elimi
nate this souice of pollution
fiom Stony Creek.
The bill also appropriates $4O
million to the Department of
Mines and Mineral Industries to
continue for another two years
its efforts to eliminate acid
mine drainage and mine sub
sidence, restore abandoned strip
mines, eliminate air pollution
from burning culm banks and
fight underground mine fires.
Another $2O million is ear
marked for the Department of
Health to help local communi
ties pay the cost of sewage
treatment facilities; $l5 million
to the Department of Communi
ty Affairs to help local com
munities develop recreational
lands and $25 million to the De
partment of Forests and Waters,
the Fish, Game and Historical
and Museum Commissions for
development of lands previous
ly purchased under Project 70.
A similar $lOO million appro
pi mtion signed into law when
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the ten-year program began two
.\enrs ago aheady has resulted
in vast improvements to Penn
sylvania’s natural icsoinccs and
man-made lecreational facili
ties.
As a result some $l5 million
woith of acid mine drainage
treatment plants are under con
struction in both the bitumin
ous and anthracite regions
and the State now owns five
mobile neutralization plants for
use in emergency situations any
where in the Commonwealth.
In addition, one major source
of air pollution in the Scranton
ares has been erased through
elimination of the first of the
twin Marvine Banks, and others
are on the way out. Mine sub
sidence is being controlled,
abandoned strip mines restored
and underground mine fires ex
tinguished.
In other areas, hundreds of
new sewage treatment plants
are now under construction;
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scores of local paiks, play
grounds''and othdr recrcition
nl facilities ar6 being built
throughout the Commonwealth,
and State fishing wateis. game
lands and parks are being de
veloped in ever-increasing num
bers.
It is particularly fitting, too,
that Stony Creek be designated
as the site of Goddaid Stale
Park in honor of the state’s
first, four-term Secietary of
Forests and Waters who today
ranks with Gifford P’.nchot as
one of America’s leasing con
servationists.
For, land on which this new
facility is being bulk was ac
quired under Project 7® and is
now being developed under Pro
ject 500 both landmark Penn
sylvania conservation efforts
which could not have succeed
ed without his leadet >hip.
In my view, it is high time
Pennsylvania honor him in this
fashion during his own, lifetime.
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