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House committee reopens debate on Brownfields Revitalization Act, asks for fiscal note
Summary
Lawmakers took House Bill 808 off the table, considered an amendment to transfer state funds into a new brownfields cleanup account and asked for an updated fiscal note before moving ahead.
The House Natural Resources Committee voted to take House Bill 808 off the table and considered an amendment that would transfer state money into a new Montana Brownfields Revitalization Act fund to support cleanup of petroleum and hazardous-substance sites.
The committee's executive staff, Jason (staff), summarized the bill as establishing a brownfields program to enable cleanup of petroleum and hazardous-substance sites and noted the bill as drafted included a statutory appropriation and an existing fund. Amy Steinmetz, Waste Management and Remediation Division administrator at the Department of Environmental Quality, told the committee that federal brownfields funds have been the program’s primary…
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