Bill: Pilot Program To Grow Industrial Hemp
House Bill 154 would authorize the Board of Agriculture chair to establish a two-year industrial hemp remediation pilot program, and appropriate funding.
The bill reads in part, “The legislature finds that phytoremediation is the environmentally-friendly science of using plants and trees to remove toxins in the soil, such as metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, and crude oil. … The legislature also finds that hemp is a superior phytoremediator because it grows quickly and can extract toxins without the need to remove any of the contaminated topsoil. …
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—Chad Blair
