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Office of Species Conservation describes federal grant flow, trustee payments and concerns about NEPA and sage‑grouse planning
Summary
The Office of Species Conservation briefed the Joint Finance Committee on federal grants flowing through its trustee and benefit payments, a sizeable IIJA federal appropriation that created multi‑year spending patterns, and the office’s concerns about federal NEPA processes and potential shifts under changing administrations.
The governor’s Office of Species Conservation told the Joint Finance Committee the office has grown its federal‑fund activity since 2023 and that a $5 million IIJA allocation in fiscal 2023 produced a pattern of appropriations that the office expects to draw down over multiple years through trustee and benefit payments.
Janet Jessup, Legislative Services analyst, said the office is allocated 16 full‑time positions and in 2025 expended nearly $1.5 million, about 14 percent of its appropriation, on personnel. She said a large share of the office’s fiscal 2023 and 2024 appropriations were federal…
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