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Senate eases match requirement for ag water projects and expands secondary water exemption
Summary
Senators approved a substitute for SB18 reducing the local match for certain ag water conservation projects and passed SB125 to raise the connection threshold for a secondary-water exemption from 1,000 to 2,500 connections, prompting questions about which distributors would be affected.
The Utah Senate on Jan. 30 approved changes to two water-related measures. First substitute Senate Bill 18, sponsored by Senator Sandel, lowers the match requirement for some ag water optimization projects (moving from a 50% match to a 25% match for drip and automated surge irrigation) and clarifies that saved agricultural water may be treated as a beneficial use reserved by the state engineer. The…
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