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Committee debates annual permits for oversized building-material loads; agency seeks separate subsection
Summary
Lawmakers and the Wyoming Department of Transportation clashed over a bill that would create annual permits and expand allowable widths for portable buildings and building materials; YDOT and Highway Patrol urged a separate statutory subsection to avoid unintended impacts on agricultural haulers.
Lawmakers in the Agriculture, State & Public Lands & Water Resources Committee debated a proposal to create longer-term permits and expand width allowances for moving portable buildings and building materials, saying the change would improve efficiency for businesses that deliver prefabricated structures.
Representative Smith presented House Bill 132 as a "Wyoming solution for a Wyoming problem," proposing to add "building materials and portable buildings" to an existing statute that permits oversized agricultural loads and to allow a one-year annual permit in place of repeated 90-day self-issued permits. "It would create efficiency, more time on the road, less time doing permits," Smith said, noting constituents who now must issue multiple self-permits when loads change en route.
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