HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett will receive a report approved Friday by his commission on Pennsylvania’s booming natural gas industry that recommends a range of ways the state can help the industry find new customers, as well as a requirement that the industry help pay for the cost to regulate it and fix the damage it causes to the environment.

The 30-member Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission also on Friday approved a recommendation that state law be changed to subject the gas reservoir to “pooling” — a provision on the books in some states that can be used to force holdout landowners to lease their below-ground gas rights under certain conditions.

The commission members, mostly Corbett officials and industry advocates, spent a five-hour meeting debating and approving 96 recommendations that will go to Corbett, a pro-business Republican who has welcomed the industry as rescuing the state’s economy while it is trying to bounce back from the recession.

The final report was approved unanimously, although votes on some individual recommendations were not, and the panel’s environmental advocates lost a bid to end the leasing of public forest land for drilling.

The meeting capped four months of work after Corbett picked the commission members and asked them to develop recommendations on the rapidly growing industry.

Terry Bossert, vice president of government and regulatory affairs for Dallas-based Chief Oil & Gas, told fellow commission members the recommendations would strengthen environmental protection and allow companies to operate efficiently.

“There will be people in the industry who will find things that are not satisfactory, there are people in local government or in the environmental community who may find things that they don’t find satisfactory,” Bossert said. “I would just hope that as we all go forward, we would focus more on what we’ve accomplished and what we did agree on.”

It’s not clear what kind of impact on public policy the commission’s recommendations will have, since they are nonbinding and the Legislature has its own ideas.

The Marcellus Shale is the nation’s largest-known natural gas reservoir, and the industry’s pursuit of it during the last three years has transformed wide swaths of western and northern Pennsylvania.

It has provided an economic boost in drilling communities, but techniques used in harvesting the gas and the disposal of massive quantities of often-toxic drilling wastewater have stirred up concerns.