From NPR:
…CCAP has aggressively pushed for an impact fee, but balked at Corbett’s plan to administer and collect it on the county level. Hill said members were worried the process would add more demands to already-stretched county tax collectors and administrators. He had also expressed concern counties would impose different levies, and create an economic “border war” of sorts, where drillers would flock to areas with lower fees.
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The potential for a county-to-county disparity still remains, but Hill said Cawley and Henderson assured CCAP that counties would not need to develop the distribution formulas for their municipalities, or be charged with enforcing the municipal-level fee spending. “The bottom line is, our responsibility with municipalities ends with us distributing the funds to them,” said Hill. Statewide data reported to the Department of Environmental Protection would form the basis for fee distribution formulas, he said…
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