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Committee backs $100 million project-level funding and emergency fire account replenishment in Senate File 148
Summary
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Oct. 28 reported Senate File 148 do pass after wide-ranging testimony on wildfire recovery and the need to replenish emergency fire funds and to fund landscape-scale restoration and invasive-species control.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Oct. 28 voted 5-0 to report Senate File 148 do pass after extensive testimony from county commissioners, the Wyoming Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust Program, local fire chiefs and conservation partners.
Sponsor testimony said the bill would provide $100,000,000 for project-level, landscape restoration work after major wildfires — primarily to address invasive annual grasses and other noxious weeds — and an additional $10,000,000 for watershed protection and public-utility impacts. The sponsor stressed the…
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