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House concurs in Senate amendments to stormwater management bill H.481
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The House concurred in the Senate proposal of amendment to H.481, an act relating to stormwater management, endorsing changes that add municipal assistance, a public resource guide, and study language on municipal stormwater utilities.
The House concurred in the Senate proposal of amendment to House Bill 481 (H.481), an act relating to stormwater management.
Floor briefing by the member from Burlington summarized Senate changes that the House Environment Committee had reviewed favorably. Noted amendments include requiring the Agency of Natural Resources secretary to notify property owners subject to the three-acre permit rule, renaming a municipal impact fee to a municipal special assessment fee, linking a statutory subsection to a later study on municipal stormwater utilities, and adding financial assistance to help municipalities obtain engineering services to form a municipal stormwater utility should that study recommend creating such utilities. The Senate also added a public-facing plain-language stormwater management resource guide for property owners and a periodic check-back report to review the effectiveness of the clean water surcharge to the property transfer tax.
The House voted by voice and the Speaker announced concurrence in the Senate’s proposal of amendment.
Speakers included the member from Burlington who presented the committee report and the Environment Committee’s straw poll and review.
