Environmental Specialist Licensing Bill Doomed

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By Lou Anne Wolfe Journal Record Staff Reporter A bill to create an Oklahoma Environmental Professionals Registration Act will probably die quietly next session in the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee of the Oklahoma House of Representatives because of unofficial committee action on Thursday.

At the second meeting of an interim study on House Bill 1305, principally authored by Rep. Mark Seikel, D-Harrah, and Sen. Dave Herbert, D-Midwest City, members voted 13-3 that they would favor "reporting progress" on the bill during the 1992 legislative session.

"Report progress" means the bill would be held in committee and no action would be taken next …