The Legislature is now halfway through the current Legislative session. Public hearings were held this past week on two bills that I introduced in the Appropriations Committee. As amended, LB 766 would appropriate $1.625 million annually in American Rescue Plan Act dollars, over the next two fiscal years, to the Department of Environment and Energy as a follow-up to the reverse osmosis grant program created by the Legislature with last year's LB 1014.
Under LB 766, NDEE would award a grant to any individual to install reverse osmosis systems if a test result finds nitrates in the person's drin...
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