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Committee advances landfill methane-monitoring bill to House floor
Summary
The House Climate, Energy and Environment Committee voted to move Senate Bill 726A to the House floor with a do-pass recommendation after adopting an A‑7 amendment that narrows the bill’s scope to Benton County and requires re-monitoring within 10 days of detected exceedances, committee staff said.
The House Climate, Energy and Environment Committee voted May 20 to send Senate Bill 726A to the full House with a do-pass recommendation after adopting an A‑7 amendment that narrows the bill’s definition of municipal solid waste landfills and imposes a 10-day re-monitoring requirement following detected surface-emissions exceedances, committee staff said.
Erin, a committee staff member, told the committee, “Senate Bill 726A requires the Environmental Quality Commission to establish rules for surface emissions monitoring and mitigation of methane gas emissions from municipal solid waste landfills.” She summarized the A‑7 amendment as modifying the landfill definition to specify that it applies to sites located in Benton County and…
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