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Committee debates whether bill would put small firewood producers under Act 250 permitting
Summary
Members discussed draft language that could subject firewood manufacturers and small wood-product businesses to Act 250 permitting, raised concerns about parcel-level effects and stormwater engineering requirements, and agreed to loop in the environment committee for further review; no formal vote was taken.
Members of the Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry committee spent their session reviewing draft bill language and probing how Act 250 permitting would apply to sawmills, firewood manufacturers and log yards.
Speaker 4, a committee member, pressed for clarity about where small firewood-manufacturing businesses would fall in the bill’s tiering, saying such operations “should be out in tier 3 or tier 2” rather than located in industrial parks. Speaker 1 responded that, under the draft language, firewood manufacturers are treated as wood products and “would be treated like sawed melt wood essentially,” and…
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