October 22 & 23, 2025

Agenda

October 22, 2025

Minutes — Audio  / Video

October 23, 2025

Minutes — Audio  / Video

EQC Final Workplan

House Joint Resolution 62

• HJ62: Montana Wildfire Risk Assessment: Methods and Results (DNRC)
• Wildfire Risks and Montana Communities 

SJ42 (Study of noxious weed control)

• State noxious weeds list, laws
• Fiscal Year 2025 County Weed District Budgets
• Montana Invasive Species Council – Protecting Montana 

Committee Rule Review

• Administrative Rule Review

Agency Director Reports

• FWP annual plan, FY2026 (2-12-105, MCA)
• DEQ annual plan, FY2026 (2-12-104, MCA)
• DEQ annual performance report, FY2025 (2-12-105, MCA)
• DNRC annual plan, FY2026 (2-12-104, MCA)
• DNRC annual performance report, FY2025 (2-12-105, MCA)

Status of Montana Tunnels mine

• Status of Montana Tunnels (DEQ)
• DEQ Montana Tunnels October 2025 Update

Status of remediation at Zortman-Landusky mine

• DEQ letter to BLM re: Zortman-Landusky mine remediation

Montana Air Quality

• Air Quality Monitoring Overview

Rare earth elements/critical minerals in Montana

• Critical Minerals List and Uses

Wolf management

• Federal ruling on wolf status: Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Aug. 8, 2025)

Committee Interim Study Bill

• HB70 Background on State Wildfire Policy 

Department of Environmental Quality Reports

• Solid waste management and resource recovery plan (DEQ) (75-10-111, MCA)
• Orphan Share funds annual report (DEQ) (75-10-743, MCA)
• Libby Asbestos Oversight Committee (75-10-1601, MCA) 

Sage Grouse reports

• Annual report from Montana Sage Grouse Oversight Team (87-5-918, MCA)
• Annual report on Sage Grouse populations (87-1-201, MCA)

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