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House approves bill to create state brownfields fund with seed funding
Summary
House Bill 808 would authorize a Montana Brownfields Fund and program; the House approved a one-time $200,000 seed amendment and advanced the bill on second reading 58-42 after debate on staffing and federal funding interactions.
The House advanced House Bill 808, the Montana Brownfields Revitalization Act, which would create state authority and a fund to assess and clean up brownfield properties across Montana and to leverage federal brownfield funding.
Representative Neil Tuss, sponsor, said the bill expands the state’s brownfields authority to mirror how the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) already applies federal brownfield funding and would allow a state fund to…
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