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House panel advances bill to create fund for Colstrip pipeline replacement
Summary
House Bill 368, sponsored by Rep. Gary Perry, passed second reading after a debate about aging pipelines that supply Colstrip and an amendment creating an annual coal-severance transfer to a mitigation account.
House Bill 368 moved forward on second reading after Representative Gary Perry told lawmakers the measure would create a dedicated fund to mitigate water infrastructure risk for Colstrip.
Perry, the bill’s sponsor, said Colstrip currently relies on two long pipelines — a 28-inch line about 50 years old and a 34-inch line about 40 years old — that carry water roughly 30 miles from the Yellowstone region into the town’s treatment plant. “We had a lot of studies done,” Perry said, and one study estimated replacing a single line would cost about $80,000,000 (figure cited…
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