In Pennsylvania, impact fees are expected to drop by 17 percent this year, due to low prices and fewer wells being drilled, StateImpact Pennsylvania reports.

Impact fees will bring in an estimated $185.5 million in 2016. According to the source, the decline isn’t unexpected. However, efforts to enact a severance tax on natural gas drillers is of more concern for local governments since the severance tax would potentially take some impact fee revenue.

Unconventional gas drillers pay impact fees to help state and local governments pay for environmental impacts as well as other impacts, like road maintenance where there is heavy truck traffic from drilling activity.

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More about Pennsylvania’s impact fee:

• Pennsylvania townships concerned that severance tax would replace impact fee Feb. 18, 2016
• $30 million in impact fee money went unreported and unaccounted for Dec. 25, 2015