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Committee approves do‑pass on wastewater infrastructure grant bill, sends it to appropriations
Summary
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to recommend House Bill 1577, a state wastewater infrastructure grant program, and referred the bill to the Appropriations Committee after testimony from Department of Water Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to give a do‑pass recommendation and refer House Bill 1577 to the Appropriations Committee. The bill would create a wastewater infrastructure grant program aimed at small communities and would set aside a portion of funds for communities under a population threshold.
Reesas (transcript), director of the Department of Water Resources, provided neutral information and described the department's cost‑share program as traditionally focused on water quantity projects funded from the Resources Trust Fund (which receives oil extraction tax revenue). Reesas told the committee the Department of Water Resources does not typically fund wastewater projects and prefers…
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