November 16, 2022
Broadcast your projects, ideas, and best practices into a presentation for the 81st Annual Conference and Trade Show. Given by many of the industry’s top minds, presentations are meant to spark the imagination, encourage dialogue, and drive new solutions to our greatest challenges. Proposals must be finalized by January 13, 2023, to be considered.
In celebration of Engineer Week: February 19 - 25, 2023, we want to share your projects in the next issue of The Authority magazine.

Let's celebrate amazing engineers and inspire the next generation by sharing your successes. The deadline is December 2, 2022.
Government Relations Update
Rulemakings/DEP and IRRC Meetings
EQB met on November 15, 2022, and unanimously adopted the final-form rulemaking NPDES Schedules of Compliance (25 Pa. Code Chapters 92a). It amends the schedule of compliance for combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges allowing for the implementation of Long Term Control Plans to continue beyond the 5-year NPDES renewal. 
Click here for the final rulemaking, PMAA’s comments, and supporting material.

WRAC meets tomorrow, November 17, 2022, to discuss:
  • Draft Proposed Rulemaking: Triennial Review of Water Quality Standards
  • Pre-Draft Pennsylvania Post-Construction Stormwater Management (PCSM) Manual
  • Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Implementation and the State Revolving Fund Program
 
Upcoming IRRC meeting on Safe Drinking Water PFAS Rule – Tomorrow, Thursday, November 17, 2022
Click here for details.

Senate Republicans Elect Leadership Team for New Legislative Session (2023-2024)
President Pro Tempore – Senator Kim Ward (Westmoreland)
Majority Leader – Senator Joe Pittman (Armstrong, Butler, Indiana, and Westmoreland)
Majority Whip – Senator Ryan Aument (Lancaster)
Appropriations Committee Chair – Senator Scott Martin (Lancaster)
Majority Caucus Chair – Senator Kristen Philips-Hill (York)
Majority Caucus Secretary – Senator Camera Bartolotta (Beaver, Greene, and Washington) 
 
Senate Democrats Elect Leadership Team for New Legislative Session (2023-2024)
Leader – Senator Jay Costa, Jr. (Allegheny)
Caucus Whip – Senator Tina Tartaglione (Philadelphia)
Appropriations Committee Chair – Senator Vincent Hughes (Montgomery and Philadelphia)
Appropriations Vice Chair – Senator Tim Kearney (Chester and Delaware)
Caucus Chair – Senator Wayne D. Fontana (Allegheny)
Caucus Secretary – Senator Maria Collett (Chester)
Administrator – Senator Judy Schwank (Berks)
 
House Democrats Elect Leadership Team for New Legislative Session (2023-2024)
Leader - Representative Joanna E. McClinton (Philadelphia and Delaware)
Whip – Representative Jordan Harris (Philadelphia)
Appropriations Committee Democratic Chair - Representative Matt Bradford (Montgomery)
Democratic Policy Committee Chair - Representative Ryan Bizzarro (Erie)
Caucus Secretary – Representative Tina Davis (Bucks)
Caucus Administrator – Representative Mike Schlossberg (Lehigh)
Caucus Chair - Representative Dan Miller (Allegheny)

House Republican Leadership Team not yet determined.