The Lycoming Sanitary Committee in Montoursville, Pa., closed early last November due to $230,000 debt and insufficient reimbursable funds. The committee had served 35 municipalities in Lycoming County and one in Clinton County since 1974. Its sewage enforcement officers issued 200 and 300 permits per year.Each year, the agency seeks state Department of Environmental Protection reimbursement for basic permitting and complaint investigations done the previous year, but receives only 85 percent of the annual costs incurred. The 2008 state budget trimmed the amount substantially, according to an e-mail from the committee. Later that month, the committee received $112,211 of the
