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Senate committee hears bill to remove unfunded PCB testing deadline for schools
Summary
A sponsor told the Senate Committee on Education H.542 would end the state's indoor-air PCB testing program and remove a statutory deadline, arguing the mandate is unfunded and risks imposing large remediation costs on schools. Committee members pressed for details on remaining remediation funds and DEC plans.
H.542 would end the state’s indoor-air testing program for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in school buildings and delete the statutory deadline requiring all Vermont schools to test, a sponsor told the Senate Committee on Education on March 27.
"So, really, H.542 is pretty simple," said the committee member presenting the bill (Committee member (S2)). "It does two main things. First of all, it ends the indoor-air testing program and, most importantly, removes the deadline by which all schools in Vermont — public, private, doesn't matter — must test indoor…
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