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Committee adopts draft solar‑power‑plant amendments as committee bill after debate over agricultural protections and incentives
Summary
After a stakeholder-driven rewrite, the committee adopted draft solar‑power‑plant amendments as a committee bill that use NRCS soil and productivity thresholds to limit state incentives on prime cropland and high‑production grazing land and require local approval and decommissioning plans.
The Energy and Technology Interim Committee voted to adopt draft solar power plant amendments as a committee bill after a sponsor presentation and a briefing from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. Representative Jack introduced the draft amendments, which were developed after stakeholder input to address county concerns about large‑scale solar installations on productive farmland and grazing land.
Connor Peterson and Tony Richards from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food explained how the bill would use Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)…
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