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Committee reviews bill language to let ANR approve short-term management of contaminated development soils
Summary
Montpelier — The Natural Resources & Energy Committee reviewed draft statutory language May 16 that would let the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) approve short-term management of so‑called "development soils" generated during construction and give housing projects priority in the state's Brownfields Property Cleanup program.
Montpelier — The Natural Resources & Energy Committee reviewed draft statutory language May 16 that would let the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) approve short-term management of so‑called "development soils" generated during construction and give housing projects priority in the state's Brownfields Property Cleanup program.
At the hearing, ANR staff explained the proposed change would let ANR use its "insignificant waste event" approval to authorize limited-time collection, treatment or processing of development soils that exceed residential or commercial soil screening values but are not hazardous-material releases requiring full corrective action. "The first section relates to how to manage development soils," ANR staff said, describing arsenic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as common substances that can accumulate in urban soils from air deposition and other sources.
The proposal, described as section 19 of…
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