Lancaster County could lose five passport agencies before the end of the year after federal officials told local libraries they could no longer process passport applications.
Karla Trout, executive director of the Lancaster County Library System, last week said libraries that serve as passport agencies received an email from the U.S. Department of State on Nov. 18 informing them of the change.
Many libraries in Pennsylvania are independent nonprofits, not official arms of a local government. Even though libraries that function as passport agencies have done so for upward of 20 years without an issue, the federal government says they are no longer eligible, Trout said…