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House adopts substitute to SB181 to streamline notification for high-priority transportation corridors
Summary
First Substitute SB181 passed the House after sponsors said it shortens notification and electronic-reporting steps for projects affecting high-priority transportation corridors, and a friendly substitute reinstated a code section related to canal safety.
Representative Webb, the floor sponsor, described First Substitute SB181 as a change to procedures for projects affecting high-priority transportation corridors so the Utah Department of Transportation would identify corridors and request electronic notification, shortening the prior written-notice-and-waiting-period process. "What happens is... UDOT sends a letter identifying that as a corridor and then requests electronic notification of anything that may affect it," Webb said, characterizing the change as a process streamlining measure.
Representative Sandel moved a friendly substitute to restore a code section inadvertently omitted that affects his canal safety bill; the sponsor agreed the substitute was friendly, it was adopted, and summation was waived. The House voted and the reading clerk announced First Substitute SB181 had received 64 yay votes and 0 nay votes; the bill will return to the Senate as amended.
Next steps: SB181, as substituted and amended on the floor, goes back to the Senate for consideration of the House changes; sponsors said the change is intended to speed review for local projects that intersect state corridors.
