PENNSYLVANIA’S ENVIRONMENTAL GOOD SAMARITAN PROGRAM

Pennsylvania enacted an Environmental Good Samaritan Act (PA EGSA) in 1999. The law is intended to encourage landowners and others to reclaim abandoned mineral extraction lands and abate water pollution caused by abandoned mines or orphaned oil and gas wells. The law protects landowners, groups and individuals who volunteer to do such projects from civil and environmental liability under Pennsylvania law. Prior to the PA EGSA, anyone who voluntarily reclaimed abandoned lands or treated water pollution for which they were not liable could be held responsible for treating the residual pollution under Pennsylvania law. This dissuaded people and groups from pursuing these types of projects. Only projects approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) prior to construction are eligible for protections under the PA EGSA. PA DEP has developed a project proposal form for participants and landowners. Each proposal must identify the project participants and landowners, describe the location of the project and the environmental problems that will be addressed, and establish a work plan for the proposed project. The PA DEP evaluates each proposal to determine if the project is capable of reclaiming the land or improving water quality. The PA DEP will also advise participants on any permits that may be required. Once the project is approved, PA DEP will maintain a permanent record of the participants and landowners who are protected under the PA EGSA.

New IMA CNMNC guidelines on combustion products from burning coal dumps

New IMA CNMNC guidelines were established for minerals crystallizing on burning coal dumps. These phases are now acceptable as minerals, if it can be proven that the fire responsible for the formation of these phases is the result of natural events. In that case, these substances have to be treated as normal new mineral species, and their complete characterization has to be submitted to the CNMNC via the new mineral proposal form. The authors are specifically asked, however, to give strong arguments in the proposal clearly demonstrating the non-anthropogenic origin of the burning process.

Development Method of Village Consultative Body Post Head Village Election in Kalikayen Village, East Ungaran District

Various conditions after the Head Village Election have a great impact to the development of village itself especially on Village Constulative Body structure. The article highight some problems: (1) What is urgency of Village Council developing method, post Head of Village Election in Kalikayen?; and (2) What is the method of Village Council Development, Post Head of Village Election in Kalikayen? Therefore, there is a method of developing Village Council Post Village Election in order to answer the challenges mentioned above. The purpose of this program is to find out the guidance carried out by the regional government of the Village Council, the Village Council to be able to carry out their duties properly, and submit proposals to the government to pay more attention to the implementation of village government. After the completion of this dedication, the Village Council now understands their duties and functions as well as its role in village development. In addition, the Village Council already has the knowledge and experience in drafting village regulations. Outcomes of our service programs include the publication of a village guidebook module that contains the optimization of the implementation of the Village Law, the management of village funds, the techniques for establishing regulations in the Village. The next output is the draft village regulations and the village head regulations, as well as the activity proposal form and problem priority of each backwoods.

Northeast Modern Language Association

The Northeast Modern Language Association celebrates its thirty-second year and will hold its annual convention in Hartford, Connecticut, 30-31 March 2001, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. NEMLA remains the sole regional MLA to hold its convention in the spring. Central Connecticut State University will be the host institution, and Gilbert Gigliotti will chair the local arrangements committee. The keynote speech will be delivered by Joan Hendrick, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her talk, “The Politics of Literary Realism,” will examine the gendered nature of the realist movement.Any current NEMLA member may submit a panel proposal for the convention by completing a proposal form, available at our Web site. The convention committee reviews proposals received by 10 May and decides on acceptance. The 2001 Hartford convention offers eleven sessions with eighteen panels in each session. The call for papers will be shipped in late June to all current members and will be posted on our Web site. Abstracts or papers are sent directly to the session chairs for panel consideration and must be postmarked no later than 15 September; chairs must send their completed panels to the executive director no later than 1 October. By reciprocal agreement, PAMLA and NEMLA members may participate in the meetings of both associations.