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Senate transportation members push priority funding for covered salt and sand sheds
Summary
Senate Transportation Chair Rich Westman told the Natural Resources & Energy Committee an amendment would prioritize funding for covering municipal salt and sand piles and require a one-year ANR report on statewide coverage and recommended appropriations.
Senate Transportation Committee Chair Rich Westman told the Natural Resources & Energy Committee on March 14 that transportation committee members will offer an amendment to prioritize funding for covering municipal salt and sand stockpiles.
Westman said the amendment would ask the Agency of Natural Resources to make covering salt and sand sheds a priority in its first-year funding decisions and to return in a year with statewide data and a recommendation on what annual appropriation would be needed to meet the coverage timelines in the bill.
The amendment responds to data ANR supplied about the Lake Champlain watershed: "roughly two thirds of all of the salt and sand piles were covered…
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