Joint Budget Committee
The Joint Budget Committee worked through figure-setting for the Department of Public Health and Environment and the Department of State, clearing most items unanimously with Sen. Kirkmeyer excused. The lone split came on a Secretary of State database-migration request, and the session produced a running theme of members demanding local governments and licensees stop leaning on the state to pay for testing and cleanups.
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“The American Academy of Pediatrics and scientists have said there are no safe levels of lead. And the General assembly made a determination a few years ago that this was an important enough thing to make sure that kids are drinking clean water and not ingesting high levels of lead.”
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Sign in to subscribeReady, Kim? All right. The joint budget committee will come to order. We are back at work on figure setting. Next we have the Department of Public Health and environment environmental divisions. Mr. McClure. Thank you, Madam Chair. Andrew McLear, JBC staff so I have the administration and environmental divisions. So I. I think just skipping right to page two in the table here you will see the different decision items and requests that I'm making. Recommendations on the unhighlighted prioritized decision items will be discussed in a later presentation by Kelly Shen. So not to bury the lead starting at the. At the bottom of page two, here is just a summary of the recommendations. So I'm recommending a denial of department request R2, which is a continuation of the clean water. The clean drinking water in schools program. Recommending approval of R3, which is the closed landfill grant spending. I'm recommending approval of Ba1, the mobile home park water quality program reduction. And I'm recommending a partial approval of Ba2, which is the utility shortfall. In addition to this, on the bottom of page three is the beginning of a few staff initiated items. The first of these…
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