02-Lancntw Fanning, Saturday, July 31.1993 VERNON ACHENBACH, JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff MYERSTOWN (Lebanon Co.) Announced Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Ridge has called for the division of the state Department of Environ mental Resources into two distinct cabinet-level agencies. Ridge has been touring the state in recent weeks visiting local GOP party members drumming up sup port and attempting to increase his name recognition some politi cal pundits have referred to him as the “most well-known unknown” candidate. Ridge will apparently be going up against a field of candidates for the job that Gov. Robert Casey is no longer eligible to hold, having served two terms. Last week, prior to a golf-outing fundraising event at a Lebanon public golf course, he stopped in Myerstown at the American Leg ion to meet with potential suppor ters and to discuss local issues of concern. Among the things he outlined was a government that served its constituents, a bureaucracy with a face and that had as a mission help ing people solve problems. In that light, he discussed divid ing DER into two seperate entities a Department of Envir onmental Protection which would Announces Rates LIONVILLE (Ches ter Co.) Loan and purchase rates for Ches ter and Delaware Coun ty’s 1993 com, grain sorghum, and soybean crops were recently announced by the Agri cultural Stabilization and Conservation Ser vice (ASCS). In Chester County, the rates are $1.91 per bushel for com, $2.96 per hundredweight for sorghum, and $5.12 per bushel for soybeans. In Delaware County, the rates are $1.92 per bushel for com, $2.96 per hundredweight for sorghum, and $5.12 per bushel for soybeans. ASCS official Hollis D. Baker said the loan rates reflect changes in the national average price support rates for the crops, as well as adjustments for location and transportation costs. “These adjustments were limited to a three percent change except for soybeans, in addi tion to the change in the price support rate for these crops.” Price support loans provide operating capi tal for fanners, enabling them to hold their crop off the market and bene fit from price increases that often come after harvest Copies of the loan and purchase rates may be obtained from the Chester/Dclaware County ASCS office, or by writing to the Cotton, Grain and Rice Pride Support Division, USDA-ASCS, P.0.80x Gubernatorial Candidate Pr be concerned with regulation and enforcement; and a Department of Conservation and Natural Resour ces, which would be concerned with the maintainance of the state park system and state forests. Additionally, he said that a new attitude must be developed in order to change the role of DER from public adversary to public partner. During a Tuesday telephone interview from his Washington D.C. office. Ridge said what his proposal means for agriculture in Pennsylvania is what it would mean for other businesses and industry: DER would not cease to monitor the health of the state's environmental resources, but it would be more cooperative in find ing solutions instead of merely decreeing an activity illegal. The specifics of his proposal are not worked out the logistics, transition and implementation of a plan to dismantle perhaps the largest state agency in terms of responsibilities and to put into place effective sibling agencies. However, the concept of split ting up DER has received much support from various sectors of the community, including some previ ous DER secretaries. Projected effects are equally conceptual. 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