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Local lawmakers, regulators outline bills affecting technical colleges, carbon storage and road-impact funds
Summary
Representative Christine Watkins and Senator Kevin Winterton briefed the Uinta Basin Collaborative on 2025 legislation affecting technical-college planning and funding, geologic carbon-storage authority, and a three-year severance surcharge to fund local road impacts.
Representative Christine Watkins and Senator Kevin Winterton addressed the Uinta Basin Collaborative and summarized 2025 legislation and related rulemaking that affect technical colleges, carbon storage regulation and local road-impact funding.
Watkins said lawmakers amended statute to let technical colleges complete planning and design work before seeking legislative approval for capital projects and to address an identified funding inequity for rural technical college students who often remain in high school while participating in technical programs. "We changed that so that they could plan and get…
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