The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee unanimously advanced a land surveyor safety bill to the consent calendar and heard extensive testimony on a clean fleet enterprise expansion bill, with sharp disagreements among stakeholders over whether replacement trucks should be limited to electric vehicles or could include compressed natural gas and renewable natural gas options.
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Megan Kemp (Earth Justice) stated 'We do not support using critical vehicle electrification funding for lower emitting diesel trucks as those dollars would be reserved for zero emitting vehicles' and argued the bill creates confusion by expanding the enterprise's purpose beyond electrification. Sponsors Senator Mullica and Minority Leader Simpson presented the bill without limiting replacement trucks to electric vehicles, and Yani Sereas (RNG Coalition) explicitly asked that no amendments removing recovered methane as a pathway be added.
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“This is very personal to me as I have the unfortunate experience of losing an employee, a young man, recently married, whose life was cut short in 1990 while setting monumentation in State Highway 65. It haunts me still. Subsequent to his death a couple weeks later, I was in the same road to complete our contractual obligation. And despite lane closure and increased traffic control personnel, I was again nearly hit by an impatient driver.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood afternoon. We'll now call. I'll now call the Senate Transportation and Energy committee to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please take the role? Senators Basley, President Catlin. Here. Exum. Oh, he's online. Senate. Good afternoon. Lynn Stepp. Present. Malika Pelton. Present. Sullivan. Excused. All excused. And Madam Chair. Present. So today we switched up the order a bit. Sorry if anyone was surprised, but Senators Rich and Snyder are here to present a bill that shouldn't take too long. It's Senate Bill 2625, monument records placement Subm. Maintenance. So sponsors, if you are ready. Senator Rich, please proceed. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a bill that was brought to us by the Colorado association of Surveyors, specifically the surveyor in Mesa county. And it is to allow reference monuments to be used if a designated survey monument position is located on a traveled road within a federal state or other public right of way. We believe this is a good bill that will protect the safety of Colorado land surveyors. Much like when land boundaries bleed into hazardous terrain or construction zones, the use of reference monuments for properties that conflict with transit right of ways will help…
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