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Committee reopens, amends Brownfields bill to add transfer; amendment passes, fuller fiscal review requested
Summary
The House Natural Resources Committee took House Bill 808 off the table, adopted Amendment 1.1 to transfer general-fund dollars into the brownfields fund and asked for an additional fiscal note before further action. DEQ said federal Brownfields funding has averaged roughly $700,000 a year.
The House Natural Resources Committee reopened House Bill 808 and approved an amendment intended to seed a Montana brownfields cleanup fund while requesting further fiscal information before advancing the bill.
Vice Chair moved that the committee reconsider the earlier tabling of House Bill 808, and the motion passed by voice vote, bringing the Montana Brownfields Revitalization Act back before the committee. Staff summarized the bill as creating or expanding a brownfields program to enable cleanup of petroleum and other hazardous sites and noted the bill…
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