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Senate Natural Resources Committee amends S.124, advances draft 2.3 with technical edits
Summary
The Vermont Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee voted to amend S.124 to draft 2.3 after staff walked members through technical changes to definitions, cross-references and stakeholder-engagement language; the committee recommended the bill favorably as amended.
The Vermont Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee voted April 4 to amend S.124 to draft 2.3 and advance the bill with a favorable recommendation after reviewing a new draft and several technical edits.
The committee’s discussion focused on clarifying statutory language and consistency with Title 6 and federal references. Staff described changes including replacing the term “operation” with “farm” where Title 6 uses “farm,” removing defined terms that are unused in statute, incorporating references to federally defined waters into the committee’s local “waters” definition, and standardizing a reference to the state permitting database (transcript: "BIPT"…
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