Idaho Bills

Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Environmental Quality for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.

This appropriation to the Department of Environmental Quality provides enhancements to the FY 2026 maintenance budget that includes funding for targeted pay to address turnover; funding for superfund cleanup; funding for remediation of Triumph Mine site; funding to reimburse infrastructure grantees using the ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Funds; a net zero fund shift for personnel costs; and the cash transfer including $10,000,000 from the General Fund for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure grants. Enhancement 4 for ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Funds removes the ongoing appropriation from this fund and replaces it with onetime appropriation that have been committed statewide for infrastructure grants. This provides that moneys that would have otherwise been appropriated in FY 2027 are available in FY 2026 so projects can be reimbursed to infrastructure grant recipients as soon as possible. This appropriation also includes an exemption from Idaho Code for the agency to balance its indirect funds for FY 2025.