Amended Impact Fee Clears Senate Committee

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 26, 2011 | 3:14 PM

The Senate Appropriations Committee has unanimously approved changes to SB 1100, which imposes an impact fee on Marcellus Shale wells, and strengthens state oversight of hydraulic fracturing.
In a parliamentary maneuver, lawmakers stripped the bill of all impact fee-related language. That will be re-inserted in the committee early next week, before the full Senate debates and votes on the bill.
We’ll have more details on the meeting and the changes soon. In the meantime, check out our annotated version of the amended measure.