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Senate approves sweeping waste‑management bill with fees, oversight changes
Summary
After extended debate, the Utah Senate passed Senate Bill 255 to revise solid and hazardous waste management, adopt quarterly collection language and impose new per‑ton fees; amendments clarified inventory language and fee timing.
Senate Bill 255, a comprehensive rewrite of state solid and hazardous waste policy, passed the Utah State Senate after detailed floor debate over fees, local control and how waste inventories should be reported.
Senator Reese, sponsor of the bill, explained that the measure is intended to strengthen state oversight of commercial disposal facilities and to make it harder to site new operations that would depend largely on out‑of‑state waste. Reese proposed an amendment to change the method of…
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