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Committee favors substitute for watershed bill, directs state water agent to negotiate with hydropower owners
Summary
House Bill 311 (first substitute) passed the committee with a favorable recommendation. The substitute narrows the original draft and authorizes the state's water agent to negotiate with out-of-state infrastructure owners and local hydropower entities to address water concerns without heavy-handed regulation.
The House Public Utilities and Energy Committee on Thursday recommended House Bill 311 (first substitute), a bill the sponsor said was rewritten to emphasize negotiation over regulation concerning the state’s interactions with large hydropower facilities.
Representative Snyder, the sponsor, said the original draft contained stronger regulatory language aimed at compensating for impacts from hydropower facilities such as phosphorus loading in the Bear River and water-loss concerns in other basins. After…
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