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JFAC approves $75.4M DEQ package including Triumph Mine remediation, ARPA reimbursements and $10M for water grants
Summary
The committee approved a multi-part Department of Environmental Quality package that includes targeted pay to reduce turnover, funding to remediate the Triumph Mine site, ARPA-funded infrastructure reimbursements, and a $10 million general-fund transfer for drinking water and wastewater grants.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on March 20 approved a comprehensive funding package for the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) totaling roughly $75.4 million across general, dedicated and federal sources. The package included a pay-targeting enhancement to reduce permitting turnover, a remediation appropriation for the Triumph Mine site, ARPA state fiscal recovery funds moved forward to speed reimbursements, and a $10 million general-fund transfer to the Water Pollution Control Fund for drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure grants.
Senator Woodward, who moved the main DEQ motion, said the…
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