Section 19.206. Establishing joint investigating commission

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Directing appointment of joint commission to study injecting natural gas into underground strata.

WHEREAS, The practice has developed in recent years of injecting natural gas into underground strata accessible through abandoned gas and oil wells for the purpose of storage; and

WHEREAS, Many of these storage areas are located in the coal mining regions of this Commonwealth in fields in which many abandoned oil and gas wells remain unlocated; and

WHEREAS, The resultant potential danger to the coal industry is such as to demand the attention of the people of Pennsylvania; therefore be it

RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the Speaker of the House of Representatives appoint five members of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate appoint five members of the Senate, who together shall constitute a joint commission, to make a thorough study of the practice of injecting natural gas into underground strata for the purpose of storage, giving particular attention to the safety factors involved and to the total area of land affected by the practice; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the commission make a report of its findings, together with its recommendations for appropriate legislation to the next General Assembly.