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Conference committee keeps $1,000,000 EA threshold for assessment drain projects, adds study language

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Summary

A legislative conference committee on House Bill 12-18 agreed to retain the $1,000,000 threshold in state code for when environmental assessments (EAs) apply to assessment drain projects, and added language to require a study of EA thresholds; no final votes were taken and the bill will be drafted in legal form for further consideration.

Chairman Hager called the conference committee on House Bill 12-18 to order on the proposal to clarify when environmental assessments (EAs) apply to assessment drain projects and to add a study of EA thresholds.

The committee agreed to keep the $1,000,000 dollar threshold that is currently found in state code for assessment drain projects and to maintain a moratorium on requiring EAs for those projects while a study of thresholds is completed. Chairman Hager said the proposed subparagraph 3 "makes it just really tight to assessment drain projects" and that "the dollar amount is the $1,000,000 that was that is in code right now." Senator Kessel said the change "just let[s] us go do the study and go forward with that…

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