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Vermont agriculture official outlines H‑2A housing inspections, warns bill could expand scope without funding
Summary
Dave Huber of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture told the committee the agency performs H‑2A pre‑occupancy housing inspections under a 2‑year MOU with the Department of Labor, but said the bill’s broader language could bring many more farms into scope and that no funding is included to cover additional inspections.
Dave Huber, deputy director of the Division of Plant Industry at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, told the House committee the agency conducts pre‑occupancy inspections of H‑2A farmworker housing under a two‑year memorandum of understanding with the Vermont Department of Labor.
“We don’t see any farmworkers. We see the farmer and we see the housing, and we verify that the housing is adequate to a checklist that were provided by the federal government,” Huber said, describing the agency’s role: inspections are triggered when an employer files an H‑2A job order in the federal FLAG system and Labor…
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