A Closer Look At The Senate's Impact Fee

• 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.

The Senate passed a wide-ranging Marcellus Shale impact fee bill last night, two days after the chamber’s Appropriations Committee approved major changes to the measure.
What’s inside the latest version of Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati’s impact fee? Here’s StateImpact’s annotated version of SB 1100. We’ve highlighted sections dictating how the fee is collected and distributed, and how drillers could challenge municipal zoning ordinances.

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