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Committee advances several agriculture and natural-resources bills to rules or ways-and-means referrals
Summary
The House Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee moved five bills — on mining permits, groundwater energy siting studies, eelgrass policy, wildlife damage compensation and a watershed collaboration — to the next stages, mainly with referrals to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means or to Rules.
The Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water Committee met March 26 and moved a package of bills forward, largely to Rules or the Joint Committee on Ways and Means for additional review and fiscal consideration.
House Bill 2777, which would exempt certain wells from onshore exploration permitting and restrict the Department of Geology and Mineral Industries from imposing additional conditions on transfer of surface mining operating permits, was sent to the House Committee on Rules with no committee recommendation. House Bill 3346, amended to create a study of small-scale renewable energy siting in critical groundwater areas east of the Cascade Range, passed the committee as amended and was referred to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means. House Bill 3580’s dash-2 amendment, which removed a task-force requirement on…
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