What's Inside HB 1950?

• Scott Detrow
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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.

Looking the details of the new House Republican impact fee, which is backed by Governor Corbett? Check out StateImpact’s new topic page on the measure, which includes an annotated copy of the legislation. Among the sections we’ve highlighted:

• Language “superseding and preempting” municipal drilling zoning

• A redistribution of revenue from drilling on state forest land

• The formula distributing funding to local governments and counties

• A section allowing DEP to, under certain circumstances, outsource permit approval to non-commonwealth employees

• Increased setbacks from waterways, and tougher civil penalties for drillers who violate the rules

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StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration among WITF, WHYY, and the Allegheny Front. Reporters Reid Frazier, Rachel McDevitt and Susan Phillips cover the commonwealth’s energy economy. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania.

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