§ 1312. Lake in crisis order
§ 1312. Lake in crisis order The Secretary of Natural Resources, pursuant to chapter 201 of this title, or the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets, pursuant to 6 V.S.A. chapter 215, may issue an order to require a person to: (1) take an action identified in the lake in crisis response plan; (2) cease […]
§ 1313. Assistance
§ 1313. Assistance (a) A person subject to a lake in crisis order shall be eligible for technical and financial assistance from the Secretary to be paid from the Lake in Crisis Response Program Fund. The Secretary shall adopt by procedure the process for application for assistance under this section. (b) State financial assistance awarded […]
§ 1314. Funding of State response to a lake in crisis
§ 1314. Funding of State response to a lake in crisis (a) Initial response. Upon designation of a lake in crisis, the Secretary may, for the purposes of the initial response to the lake in crisis, expend up to $50,000.00 appropriated to the Agency of Natural Resources from the Clean Water Fund for authorized contingency […]
§ 1315. Lake in Crisis Response Program Fund
§ 1315. Lake in Crisis Response Program Fund (a) There is created a special fund known as the Lake in Crisis Response Program Fund to be administered by the Secretary of Natural Resources. The Fund shall consist of: (1) funds that may be appropriated by the General Assembly; and (2) other gifts, donations, or funds […]
§ 1331. Preamble
§ 1331. Preamble Whereas, the growth of population and the development of the territory of the New England states has resulted in serious pollution of certain interstate streams, ponds and lakes, and of tidal waters ebbing and flowing past the boundaries of two or more states; and Whereas, such pollution constitutes a menace to the […]
§ 1332. Waters subject to compact—Article I
§ 1332. Waters subject to compact—Article I It is agreed between the signatory states that the provisions of this compact shall apply to streams, ponds and lakes which are contiguous to two or more signatory states or which flow through two or more signatory states or which have a tributary contiguous to two or more […]
§ 1333. Creation of Commission—Article II
§ 1333. Creation of Commission—Article II There is hereby created the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) which shall be a body corporate and politic, having the powers, duties and jurisdiction herein enumerated and such other and additional powers as shall be conferred upon it by the act […]
§ 1334. Composition of Commission—Article III
§ 1334. Composition of Commission—Article III The Commission shall consist of five commissioners from each signatory state, each of whom shall be a resident voter of the state from which he or she is appointed. The commissioners shall be chosen in the manner and for the terms provided by law of the state from which […]
§ 1335. General powers of Commission—Article IV
§ 1335. General powers of Commission—Article IV The Commission shall annually elect from its members a chair and vice chair and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers. It may appoint and employ a secretary who shall be a professional engineer versed in water pollution and may employ such stenographic or […]
§ 1336. Water standards; classification—Article V
§ 1336. Water standards; classification—Article V It is recognized, owing to such variable factors as location, size, character and flow and the many varied uses of the waters subject to the terms of this compact, that no single standard of sewage and waste treatment and no single standard of quality of receiving waters is practical […]