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Committee debates proposal to deem clean-water rule requirements met for projects serving new housing
Summary
Members questioned capital-bill language that would treat certain rule-based demonstrations for Clean Water SRF grant prioritization as already satisfied for projects serving new housing, raising procedural and intercommittee concerns; committee asked DEC and counsel to meet with other chairs before pursuing statutory preemption.
Committee members spent substantial time on March 19 examining section 9 of the proposed capital bill, which DEC presented as a way to streamline Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) grant awards for municipal wastewater projects that will serve new housing. DEC said the change would deem certain rule-based demonstration requirements—such as showing no reasonable alternatives and municipal controls to prevent scattered development—met when a municipality certifies the project will provide sewer capacity for new housing.
Patrick Monks of Vermont DEC told the committee that the change would make…
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