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Panel backs bill shifting probable‑cost estimate responsibility to petitioners for irrigation districts
Summary
Senate Bill 2065 would require petitioning entities forming irrigation districts to prepare the probable‑cost estimate currently prepared by the Department of Water Resources; committee recommended a due‑pass, arguing the petitioner’s consultants are better placed to prepare initial cost estimates.
Senate Bill 2065, introduced by the Department of Water Resources, would change the process for forming irrigation districts by assigning the responsibility for preparing a probable‑cost estimate to the petitioning entity rather than the Department of Water Resources.
Patrick Frygen, planning and education division director at the department, told the committee petitioning entities already…
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