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Legislative Fiscal Division launches statewide inventory of local water and other infrastructure
Summary
The Legislative Fiscal Division described an initiative to build baseline inventories and condition assessments for local infrastructure — beginning with water and wastewater systems — to help the legislature project future capital needs and identify maintenance backlogs.
Helena — The Legislative Fiscal Division told the House Subcommittee F it is beginning a multi-year effort to create baseline inventories and condition‑assessment data for local government infrastructure, starting with water and wastewater systems.
Deputy director Joe Treem outlined the project and told the committee the work aims to give legislators defensible estimates of what local infrastructure should cost to maintain over time, and where deferred maintenance backlogs likely exist.
Why it matters: Treem said state and local spending histories do not reliably reflect long‑term infrastructure needs because communities often underinvest until systems fail. The LFD initiative is designed to produce “prototype” system models, condition measures and life‑cycle component…
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