Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Environmental Quality for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

This is the fiscal year 2024 original appropriation bill for the Department of Environmental Quality. It appropriates a total of $165,914,000 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 379.00. The bill funds twelve line items, which provides: $191,900 for pay increases for engineers; $98,200 for a wastewater reuse analyst; $148,600 for a water quality program enhancement; $98,400 for an air quality compliance officer; $98,200 for a permit writer within the IPDES program; $98,200 for a data analyst within the IPDES program; $385,000 for additional operating costs within the IPDES program; $12,600,000 for federal funding for infrastructure grants; $400,000 for INL oversight; $1,500,000 for the superfund cleanup project and transfers said funds from the Water Pollution Control Fund to the Environmental Remediation (Basin) Fund as part of federal match requirements; $4,895,400 for federal project implementation; $555,000 for the central treatment plant in Kellogg. The budget also includes a reduction of 2.00 FTP and increase of $52,000 for the OITS consolidation. The bill also includes language requiring reporting, cash transfers, reappropriation, and directing the use of previously appropriated funds from the ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund. This bill also includes three fiscal year 2023 supplemental actions, including funding for the a new electronic data management system, maintenance costs at the central treatment plant in Kellogg, and to purchases air quality equipment with ARPA funds allocated to the department. These supplemental actions utilize onetime funding that is removed before calculating the fiscal year 2024 Base.