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By Rep. Kent Sheltaamer,
Chairman Home Agri
culture Committee
Among the bills I have
introduced in the present
session of the Legislature,
there are two that I feel are
especially significant, in that
they represent an effort to
prevent further unnecessary
depletion of our valuable
farm acreage.
In recent years, housing
developments have virtually
surrounded most of our
workable farms. This
suburban growth has caused
the Commonwealth to
mandate sewage services to
these areas, and our
municipalities and town
ships have to lay thousands
of feet of sewer and water
lines to comply with the
laws.
Obviously, in many cases,
the lines will be placed
parallel to farms near the
developments. If the
municipality or authority
were to impose an
assessment on the farm
owner, he would suffer an
unfair financial hardship,
simply because of the large
amount of front footage he
owns.
My bill would exempt any
farm which has been in
agricultural use for three
years prior to the laying of
the water and sewer lines.
The bill, House Bill 217,
also provides that if and
when the owner or sub
sequent owner of the land
avails himself of the ser
vices, he becomes liable in
the same manner as other
property owners were
assessed at the time the
installation was made. The
proposal is now in the bands
of the House Agriculture
Committee, which I head,
and I expect that it will be
sent out to the House floor for
a vote at an early date.
Another bill which I feel is
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important to the agricultural
industry in House Bill 219,
which I introduced early in
February. This bill would
prohibit the taking of most
agricultural lands for high
way purposes or for the
disposal of solid waste
material, by the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania,
or any of its political sub
divisions or agencies or
authorities unless it is
determined that there is no
feasible and prudent
alternative to the use of such
land.
The bill proposes the
formation of a committee
made up of a member of the
State Planning Board, the
Dean of College of
Agriculture of Pennsylvania
State University, the
Secretary of Agriculture, the
Secretary of Environmental
Resources, and an active
fanner appointed by the
Governor.
Heretofore, we all are
aware that the con
demnation of farm lands to
construct super highways
was done in a rather ar
bitrary manner, and we have
seen thousands of rich,
fertile acres of productive
soil become ribbons of
concrete. Certainly, we must
continue to build and im
prove our highway networks,
but my bill will spur the
highway planners to find
alternate routes nearby
without despoiling the
agricultural land.
H 8219 is also in the House
Agricultural Committee, and
my co-sponsors and I are of
the opinion it has an ex
cellent chance of becoming
law, as more of our
colleagues in the urban, non
farm districts are being
made aware of man’s
dependence on the
agricultural industo'.
Both bills, I believe, use
the common-sense approach
to meaningful legislation for
the farmer, and I will be
reporting on several others
in subsequent columns.
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