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Environmental Quality Board adopts fiscal 2025 work plan amid capacity concerns
Summary
The Environmental Quality Board voted 11–0 (6 members absent) to approve its fiscal 2025 work plan and budget framework, prioritizing environmental review modernization, a climate calculator, water reporting and pollinator work; board members urged the plan remain adaptive to staffing and legislative directives.
The Environmental Quality Board voted to adopt its fiscal 2025 work plan on Aug. 21, approving a program‑level approach that prioritizes environmental review modernization, a climate calculator for project assessments, water assessment and policy reporting due in 2025, and pollinator and biodiversity initiatives.
Executive Director Katherine Neuschler told the board the FY24–25 appropriation for EQB is about $3.7 million (she described the agency’s ongoing base nearer $2.5 million) and that staff time and salaries account for the majority of…
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