(Harrisburg) -- Local government groups have been critical of a state House proposal to allow state-imposed natural gas drilling regulations trump local ordinances. But as Mary Wilson reports, one business advocate says the alternative is a regulatory patchwork. Dave Patti, president of the Pennsylvania Business Council, says there’s no reason to allow local ordinances regulate any one industry. He says the House plan would keep the regulations on drilling from becoming cumbersome and unmanageable because of inconsistency across the state. "The idea that municipalities should be able to set their own common sense rules, local rules for drilling, becomes problematic when you start saying, and where does it end? Do we have different driving rules municipality by municipality?" Patti says. Representatives for the state’s townships and boroughs aren’t keen on the bill, which would also impose an impact fee assessed and collected by individual counties. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs says if patchwork were the chief concern, the impact fee would be assessed at the state level. Governor Corbett supports the measure, which next goes before the state House for consideration.