HARRISBURG — A bill to authorize Pennsylvania utility inspectors to enforce federal safety rules over many new natural gas gathering pipelines that are accompanying the booming drilling industry is headed to Gov. Tom Corbett.

The state House of Representatives approved the measure unanimously Thursday, two days after senators did the same.

Pennsylvania is one of two natural-gas producing states that does not enforce the safety rules.

The bill covers many, but not all, types of the gathering lines. Lines built in the most rural areas would remain uninspected by the government, although they still require federal, state or local permits to cross wetlands, streams and roads.

Companies are expected to build thousands of miles of gathering lines to ferry gas from producing Marcellus Shale well sites in Pennsylvania to larger, interstate pipelines.

CLEARFIELD — A Marcellus drilling company has agreed to pay $93,710 to settle claims by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission that it polluted a high quality trout stream in west-central Pennsylvania.A Pittsburgh newspaper says Houston-based EOG Resources also will pay $65,000 toward a yet-to-be-determined environmental project in the watershed of the Little Laurel Run creek in Clearfield County near Parker Dam State Park.The settlement is the fourth involving the company and the Fish Commission this year, and the second involving alleged pollution of the Little Laurel Run stream. EOG has paid more than $302,000 to settle those allegations.The other two settlements included pollution of Alex Branch and an aquifer that feeds a spring at the Sykesville Hunting Camp nearby.

HARRISBURG — A bill that could force the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and insurer Highmark to settle their dispute over health coverage in Western Pennsylvania is headed to the state Senate.The state House of Representatives voted 186-6 to approve the bill Thursday.Under the bill, the contract would have to remain in place during a state investigation into the effect of public health if it expires. If state regulators recommend that the contract continue, UPMC and Highmark would have to renew negotiations on the terms recommended, and then binding arbitration.UPMC says it won't renew the contract because Highmark's $475 million takeover of the West Penn Allegheny Health System makes it a direct competitor. That's led many people to worry about future coverage options in the region.