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Committee hears multiple funding requests: forest NEPA work, water‑reuse distribution, and local fire‑flow projects

Utah legislative committee (name not provided in transcript) · February 3, 2026
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Summary

Several presenters asked the committee to fund shovel‑ready projects: a $900,000 one‑time RFA for forest NEPA/timber sales legal support, a $4 million RFA to complete Cedar City/Enoch water reuse distribution, and local requests for fire‑flow pipeline work in North Logan; the committee collected the briefings for later consideration.

Legislative members heard a series of RFA presentations seeking one‑time and restricted funding to advance community projects.

Representative Carl Albrecht presented a one‑time $900,000 RFA to support NEPA and legal work for timber sale and forest resiliency projects in Garfield County and other rural areas. Brianne Emery, deputy director of operations for Forestry, Fire and State Lands, said the funding would contract for archaeology, biology and other technical…

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