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House passes air‑permit bill to meet 1990 Clean Air Act requirements
Summary
The Utah House on Feb. 5 passed substitute House Bill 129 to establish a state operating‑permit program and fees to maintain state primacy under the 1990 Clean Air Act, adding enforcement tools and a small‑business assistance component; the measure passed after a technical amendment and was sent to the Senate (55–9).
The Utah House voted to pass substitute House Bill 129 on Feb. 5, a measure the sponsor said is designed to preserve state control of a new operating‑permit program required by the 1990 Clean Air Act. Representative Arlie Ellerson, the bill’s sponsor, told the chamber the federal law requires a state to submit a completed permit program for EPA approval or risk federal takeover and related economic sanctions.
“The governor must submit to the EPA by 11/15/1993 a completed program that will fall in the guidelines and meet with the EPA’s approval,” Ellerson said, describing a program that authorizes the Division of Air Quality…
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