A legislative panel said Tuesday that it wants more time decide wheather rules written by the Department of Natural Resources to govern hydraulic fracturing in Illinois can take effect.

 

The legislature's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules received proposed rules for high-volume oil and gas extraction from the DNR on August 29, after the agency reworded some rules based on more than 30,000 comments on it original draft.  But industry and environmental groups said they would ask JCAR to seek dozens of changes.

 

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