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House narrows hazardous-waste fee overhaul after heated PCB debate; Valentine amendment advances
Summary
Lawmakers spent hours debating Senate Bill 96, which revises hazardous-waste fees and PCB handling rules. An amendment by Rep. Valentine to raise PCB charges to $4.75 per ton passed; a separate Bradshaw amendment to create a special-waste oversight tier failed after a division vote.
The Utah House spent the bulk of a March 2 floor session debating Senate Bill 96, a measure to revise hazardous-waste fees and address constitutional and funding shortfalls in the state’s hazardous-waste program.
Representative Richard Ellerton (declared conflict of interest) told the chamber the Department of Environmental Quality had identified constitutional problems in the current statute and that any fix needed to both cure the legal issue and provide sufficient funding to operate the regulatory program. Ellerton said the department requested that the bill include funding for hazardous-materials responder training and cited a $200,000 allocation for the Department of Public Safety.
Representative Valentine moved a set of pink-sheet amendments intended to make the bill fiscally neutral by adjusting per‑ton charges for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Valentine summarized the…
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