DNR omnibus time
The committee has finally moved on from prevailing wage to the omnibus motions on air, waste and contaminated land.
Sen. Olsen's motion fails 12-4.
Sen. Miller's motion passed 12-4.
Among other things, Sen. Miller's motion would raise tipping fees from $5.09 per ton to $13 per ton and reinstate the Clean Sweep program at fund it at 75 percent of the current level.
The LFB says the tipping fee increase will raise costs to municipalities by $63 million.
A motion for committee Republicans to transfer $17.5 million from the vehicle environmental impact fee to the transportation fund failed on a 12-4 vote.
A motion from Rep. Montgomery have Miller's omnibus include a provision to prohibit lapses from the contaminated sediment transport appropriation to the general fund failed 11-5.
-- By Greg Bump




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