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DEQ outlines mix of fee proposals, staffing requests and ADA work as federal funding shifts
Summary
Department of Environmental Quality Director Todd Parfitt told appropriators the agency is pursuing a set of exception requests including an administrative restructure intended to recover more indirect federal costs, additional fee authority for nonattainment/NSR modeling, ADA compliance work ahead of an April 2026 DOJ deadline, and added staff for a Class 6 UIC carbon sequestration program.
Todd Parfitt, director of the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, presented the agency’s priorities and detailed multiple exception requests to the Joint Appropriations Committee, stressing a mix of fee actions, staffing and compliance work.
Parfitt described a proposed administrative restructuring that would move accounting positions from operational divisions into an administration cost center managed by Administration & Information (ANI) and use indirect cost recovery to shift some general fund burden to federal and special revenue. He said the request is for $801,524 in general funds with an estimated federal offset of about $350,000, producing a net general fund need of roughly $450,000 initially;…
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