Al4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 17,1981
PFA staffer explains water bill opposition
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
INTERCOURSE Possible
workings of the proposed H.B. 1483
- the already infamous Water Bill -
- was compared to “playing
Solomon and cutting babies in
half” by a staff member of the
Pennsylvania Farmers’
Association at the annual meeting
of the Lancaster County Farmer’s
Association on Monday night.
Chris Allen, research specialist
of public affairs, made the com
Lancaster County Farmer's Association activities
parison in a rather lengthy ex
planation of PFA’s opposition to
the bill.
In the Solomon reference, Allen
talked of the proposed application
and permit process that will be
needed for expanding use of water
which might involve the drilling of
another well.
“Will farmer? be on equal
ground for using water with a
hospital wing, a new housing
development or a school?” he
asked.
He told the approximate 150
present m the Harvest Drive
restaurant that a permit would be
required under the bill to use more
than 10,000 gallons a day.
“That’s playing it pretty close to
the vest for many dairymen,” he
said.
“The bill doesn’t do anything to
attempt to provide more water.
“It just provides for the shuffling
ot a lot of paper (by the DER) to
see who uses it.’’
Allen explained that PFA has
testified twice in opposition to the
bill in its traveling road show ot
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left, James Groff, Fred Crider, John Landis.
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hearings throughout the state.
The PFA’s opposition primarily
lies in those areas of the bill which
put authority in the hands of the
DER to 'determine water
emergency areas, the allocation of
water for various priorities and the
relinquishing of individual rights
' and free enterprise.
Allen also touched on the PFA
energy groups being formed to
better deal with oil and gas leasing
companies and the creation of ag
protection areas, which PFA
favors.
In other matters, The Lancaster
County Fanner’s Association:
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