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Committee hears HB6 to fund water, wastewater and irrigation grants after revenue estimate cut
Summary
Lawmakers on the Senate Finance and Claims Committee heard testimony on House Bill 6, a DNRC-funded package of renewable resource grants for water, wastewater and irrigation projects; sponsors said a revenue-estimate error forced a roughly 50% reduction in scope and removed two Granite County projects that offered no local match.
Representative John Fitzpatrick, the bill sponsor, told the Senate Finance and Claims Committee that House Bill 6 is part of the executive budget package to provide grants to local governments and districts for water, wastewater and irrigation repairs funded by interest from the Resource Indemnity Trust. "After the bill was introduced, it was discovered that there had been a significant error in the revenue estimate, and it was necessary to reduce the scope of the bill and limit the number of projects that could be funded by, roughly 50% of the revenue anticipated in the original bill," Fitzpatrick said.
The bill before the committee contains funds sufficient to support projects down through the town of Ennis and to fund 21…
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