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Committee backs dust-mitigation bill to fund inspectors, require site signage
Summary
The Senate Business and Labor Committee on Feb. 19 recommended House Bill 378 to raise a capped fee that would pay for two additional Division of Air Quality inspectors and require gravel pits to post contact signage so neighbors can reach operators directly.
Representative Grishaes told the committee that House Bill 378, a second substitute, grew from long-running conflicts in Genoa between orchard growers and nearby gravel pits and was shaped by multi-stakeholder working groups that included industry and the Division of Air Quality.
“The industry was amazing. They were very, very responsive,” Representative Grishaes said during an overview of the measure. The bill would allow the division to raise an annual compliance fee with a statutory cap; the…
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