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Senate advances hazardous-waste fee overhaul after hours of debate over rates and fiscal details
Summary
After extended floor debate and multiple amendments, the Utah Senate advanced Senate Bill 96—an overhaul of hazardous-waste fee structure—sending the measure to third reading. Senators pressed fiscal analysts for clearer estimates and disagreed over whether fee revenue should fund hazardous-materials training.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 29 advanced Senate Bill 96, a proposal to restructure per-ton hazardous-waste fees and to reallocate revenues to environmental oversight and public-safety training, after an extended session-long debate over fiscal details and policy trade-offs.
Senator Reese, the bill’s floor sponsor, told colleagues the measure responds to a constitutional problem with the state’s prior fee structure and aims to make the program revenue-neutral while maintaining needed oversight. He described the bill as “an effort to reach the cons to meet the constitutional requirement” and defended the bill’s configuration as a compromise among the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Public Safety and industry representatives.
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