Legislation

Removes emissions testing requirements for older vehicles without adding meaningful use limits, mileage caps, or emissions safeguards, allowing some of the highest-emitting vehicles on Utah roads to continue operating unchecked.

Eliminates the Alternative Energy Development Incentive and makes other changes to the Dept. of Natural Resources.

Recommended by Public Utilities, Energy, and Tech Interim Committee. Reduces or removes state incentives for solar power facilities over 1 MW located on certain prime farm or agricultural land.

Modifies Utah statute to shield individuals from criminal or civil liability related to damages from generating greenhouse gas emissions under any principle of law or equity, unless explicitly related to a state or federal law.

Redirects revenue generated by the brine shrimp tax to support activities that benefit the Great Salt Lake.

Establishes a registration and renewal fee of $175 for a "high emissions heavy duty vehicle", a heavy duty vehicle older than 2009 and over 14,000 pounds. The revenue from the fee would go into the Environmental Mitigation and Response Fund.

Removes a key policy barrier by allowing conserved water to be dedicated to the Great Salt Lake, which is necessary for reducing lakebed dust over time. Allows water conservation plans to include committing conserved or available water to the Great Salt Lake, creating a pathway for water savings to be directed to lake inflows rather than exclusively to future development or consumptive use.

Addresses fugitive dust mitigation at aggregate operations.

The Legislative Water Development Commission recommended this bill, which requires large data centers to demonstrate where they will attain water.

Requires procuring electric landscaping equipment for maintenance of state government grounds of a certain size in first and second class counties.

Promotes water-wise landscaping practices and establishes landscaping requirements for state government facilities.

In process