The bill allocates $64.5 million for a new school, to replace a decades-old building that sits adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume.
Education
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed two bills related to funding for K-12 education and authorizing spending by state agencies.
The Owyhee Combined School was built in the 1950s adjacent to a hydrocarbon plume, and tribal leaders believe it is the cause of more than 100 of its members getting cancer.
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