HB 1428 - Lead remediation at PSGC Ranges

[Brick]

Text not available at this time.

I wonder what this is about since the GAme Commission went through a big lead remediation project in 2008 - 2009 and IIRC did all of their ranges.

See: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/...type=B&bn=1428

Regular Session 2011-2012
House Bill 1428

Short Title: An Act regulating lead management and remediation at firing ranges; and providing for powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Prime Sponsor: Representative CONKLIN

[PreserveandProtect]

Text now available at the above link, thanks!

PRINTER'S NO. 1718

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL
No. 1428 Session of
2011


INTRODUCED BY CONKLIN, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, DALEY, FABRIZIO, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS AND MURT, MAY 3, 2011


REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MAY 3, 2011



AN ACT

Regulating lead management and remediation at firing ranges; and providing for powers and duties of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Freedom to Shoot Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Commission." The Pennsylvania Game Commission.
"Director." The executive director of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
"Federal standard." The Best Management Practices for Lead at Outdoor Shooting Ranges (June 2005), established by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Task force." The Task Force on Lead Management and Remediation at Firing Ranges established in section 3.
Section 3. Task force.
(a) Establishment. The Task Force on Lead Management and Remediation at Firing Ranges is established.
(b) Membership. The task force shall consist of the following individuals:
(1) The Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources or a designee.
(2) The Secretary of Environmental Protection or a designee.
(3) The Secretary of Health or a designee.
(4) A representative of the Amateur Trapshooting Association.
(5) A representative of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc.
(6) A representative of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association.
(7) The director.
(c) Organization.
(1) The director shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
(2) Four members of the task force constitute a quorum.
(d) Functions. The task force has the following functions:
(1) To study lead management and remediation at firing ranges.
(2) To recommend to the commission, within six months of the effective date of this section, regulations for lead management and remediation at firing ranges which can be applied evenly and fairly throughout this Commonwealth.
Section 4. Commission.
(a) Regulations. The commission shall promulgate regulations for lead management and remediation at firing ranges.
(b) Time. The commission shall initiate the regulatory process on the earlier of:
(1) receipt of the recommendation under section 3(d)(2); or
(2) six months after the effective date of section 3.
Section 5. Primacy.
(a) Legal principles. The only law of this Commonwealth for the regulation of lead management and remediation at firing ranges is:
(1) before the effective date of regulations under section 4, the Federal standard; and
(2) on and after the effective date of regulations under section 4, the regulations under section 4.
(b) Commonwealth agencies. Commonwealth agencies shall apply the legal principles under subsection (a).
(c) Firing ranges.
(1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), shooting at a firing range may not be curtailed nor impeded by a Commonwealth agency.
(2) Shooting at a firing range may be curtailed or impeded by a Commonwealth agency if any of the following apply:
(i) The management of the firing range consents in writing to the action.
(ii) The commission consents to the action because of scientific proof that the action is necessary to avoid environmental degradation which is beyond remediation.
Section 20. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.

[wa3ra]

Hello, hello....Department of Redundancy Department.

Another bureaucracy with no checks and balances.

[Brick]

Is it just me or does anyone else think this does not bode well and is poorly written?

For example some questions come to mind:

What ranges are covered by this law? Private (including clubs), state owned, both, all ranges in the state regardless of ownership?

(a) Regulations. The commission shall promulgate regulations for lead management and remediation at firing ranges.

Commission is defined as the Pa Game Commission. What expertise, do they have in writing environmental regulations? Additionally nothing they write can nullify existing Federal (EPA) groundwater/surface water/drinking water standards.

[pahuntnfool]

Is the state going to regulate DCNR ranges also? To my knowledge they are the same dirt piles at Little Pine State Parks range that have been there since the last floods washed them out. Just curious

[kadar]

I see this as failing to come out of Appropriations.

[son of the revolution]

I'd suggest watching this like a hawk guys, we had to deal with this kind of thing down in Florida when I was there. The enviro weenies are every bit as zealous and sneaky as the Anti gunners and will try anything they can to get ranges closed down by crying about the lead from spent rounds getting into the ground or ground water. IIRC there was something at the Federal Level in the last couple years to try and ban lead fishing weights by the same groups and with the same specious arguments

[steelerfan]

I'd suggest watching this like a hawk guys, we had to deal with this kind of thing down in Florida when I was there. The enviro weenies are every bit as zealous and sneaky as the Anti gunners and will try anything they can to get ranges closed down by crying about the lead from spent rounds getting into the ground or ground water. IIRC there was something at the Federal Level in the last couple years to try and ban lead fishing weights by the same groups and with the same specious arguments

I whole heartedly agree. We can't just dismiss this as "never gonna happen"