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House advances bill requiring legislative sign-off on higher‑level radioactive waste; bill includes tax treatment, 63–6
Summary
House Bill 145 would require legislative and gubernatorial approval before Utah allows receipt of radioactive waste assessed as 'hotter than A waste' and sets the gross‑receipts tax treatment for newly received mixed waste. Sponsors said the measure closes a regulatory loophole; the House passed the bill 63–6 and sent it to the Senate.
The Utah House on the floor passed House Bill 145 on a 63–6 vote, advancing a measure to require legislative and gubernatorial approval before the state accepts radioactive waste described by the sponsor as “hotter than A waste.” Representative Steven Urquhart, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the bill “would merely close that window” he said had been opened by potential federal reclassification of some material as “11e(2)” without state approval.
The bill directs that any material hotter than the waste the state currently allows will require explicit legislative and governor approval before it may be received in Utah. Urquhart also said the measure establishes a stop‑gap tax policy: if a facility receives this hotter mixed waste the legislation would…
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