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Two recent moves aim to benefit water access for tribal communities in the Colorado River basin. One, a bill in the U.S. Congress, could increase access to clean water. Another, the release of a "shared vision" statement, outlines the goals of tribes and conservation nonprofits.
The bill will be considered in a hearing the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife this afternoon. Watch here.
The bill, which revises best practices for supply chain risk management, passed the House today.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse stopped by Breckenridge Friday, May 6, to visit a planned workforce housing site along with Summit County and Breckenridge officials. The “Justice Center parcel project,” as town officials have unofficially dubbed it, will provide the town with 52 workforce housing units.
Colorado Mountain College celebrated graduation for over 100 students across the Breckenridge and Dillon campuses on Friday.
The funding request calls for a language inclusion to increase firefighter pay and benefits to reflect the qualifications of our federal wildland firefighters and hazards and risks they face.
View his opening remarks HERE.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, along with several House colleagues, is urging Congress to raise the pay for federal wildland firefighters as they battle tinder-dry conditions across the country, particularly in the West.
In Colorado, experts say the conditions have cranked up April's fire risk to what the state would normally see in the summer.
Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, joined by six members of Congress, led a letter to House Appropriations Committee leadership urging them to include $25 million for a pilot program for open textbooks in fiscal year 2023.