This amendment revises the industrial sovereign zone process to require county commissioner nomination before the Wyoming Energy Authority establishes a zone, and modifies related permitting and tax provisions.
- Deletes the previous House standing committee amendment and replaces it with new provisions. (Page 1, lines 1-2)
- Adds to the bill's purpose statement that it authorizes county commissioners to nominate industrial sovereign zones. (Page 1, line 5)
- Creates a new subsection (a) allowing county boards of commissioners to nominate areas as industrial sovereign zones, with requirements for formal resolution adoption and nomination contents including geographic boundaries, natural gas or coal resource access, and information for authority evaluation. (Page 4, after line 12)
- Renumbers the existing authority zone establishment provision from subsection (a) to (b) and requires it to apply only to areas nominated by county commissioners under the new subsection (a). (Page 4, lines 14-15)
- Limits the Authority's ability to modify zone boundaries: boundaries may only be decreased without consent, but enlargement requires formal consent from each affected county. (Page 4, lines 19-22 and Page 5, lines 1-2)
- Updates references to tax exemption statutes to cite the correct subdivisions for machinery used in industrial sovereign zones. (Page 5, lines 8-10)
- Revises the expedited permitting language to require prioritization and expediting of applications while maintaining primacy of permitting programs and public health and environmental protections, and prohibits unreasonable delays. (Page 8, lines 10-18)
- Modifies Section 3 to require that the Wyoming Energy Authority first consider establishing an industrial sovereign zone in the Opal natural gas hub area only if nominated by the board of county commissioners. (Page 12, line 7)
- Corrects a statutory reference in Section 3 from W.S. 9-20-203(a) to W.S. 9-20-203. (Page 12, lines 27-28)
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