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Committee advances bill to allow Utah to seek state primacy for geologic carbon storage
Summary
The Public Utilities and Energy Committee voted to recommend House Bill 352, which makes statutory changes the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining says are required before it can seek Class VI primacy from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for geologic carbon sequestration.
A House committee on Thursday recommended approval of House Bill 352, which makes statutory changes the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining says are necessary for Utah to apply for federal “primacy” over geologic carbon sequestration regulation.
Supporters told the Public Utilities and Energy Committee the bill is procedural: it updates state enforcement authority and other provisions so the division can submit a primacy application to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Representative Watkins, the bill sponsor, told the committee that changes first required by House Bill 244 in 2022 led the division to begin preparing a primacy application and that the…
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