Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1283a
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1283a
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Conservation. See
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Person: means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the State of Vermont or any agency, department, or subdivision of the State; any federal agency; or any other legal or commercial entity. See
- Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or his or her authorized representative. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Waste: means effluent, sewage, or any substance or material, liquid, gaseous, solid, or radioactive, including heated liquids, whether or not harmful or deleterious to waters; provided, however, the term "sewage" as used in this chapter shall not include the rinse or process water from a cheese manufacturing process. See
§ 1283a. Contaminants of Emerging Concern Special Fund
(a) The Contaminants of Emerging Concern Special Fund is established pursuant to 32 Vt. Stat. Ann. chapter 7, subchapter 5 to provide grants to public water systems responding to or remediating emerging contaminants in a public water supply. The Secretary of Natural Resources shall administer the Fund and may make disbursements from the Fund for the following costs:
(1) investigation of an actual or threatened impact to or contamination of natural resources or public assets presented by an emerging contaminant;
(2) reimbursement to any person for:
(A) expenditures made to provide alternative water supplies or to take other emergency measures deemed necessary by the Secretary to protect human health from emerging contaminants; or
(B) expenditures by a public asset to pay for the treatment or disposal of an emerging contaminant;
(3) payment of the costs of oversight or conducting assessment of a natural resource where injury has resulted or is likely to result from of an emerging contaminant; or
(4) payment of the costs of oversight or conducting restoration, replacement, or rehabilitation of a natural resource injured by an emerging contaminant.
(b) The Secretary may bring an action under this section or other available State and federal laws to enforce the obligation to repay the Fund.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) “Emerging contaminant” means:
(A) a hazardous material as defined in subdivision 6602(16) of this title;
(B) any constituent for which the Department of Health has established a health advisory; or
(C) any constituent that the Secretary determines is an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health, natural resources, or public assets.
(2) “Natural resources” means fish, wildlife, biota, air, surface water, groundwater, wetlands, drinking water supplies, or State-held public lands.
(3) “Public asset” means:
(A) any wastewater treatment facility permitted under chapter 47 of this title;
(B) any public water system or noncommunity system permitted under chapter 56 of this title;
(C) any potable water supply permitted under chapter 64 of this title; or
(D) any facility for the disposal of solid waste permitted under chapter 159, provided that the facility did not know that the waste was an emerging contaminant at the time of disposal.
(4) “Secretary” shall mean Secretary of Natural Resources.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude, supplant, or limit any other statutory or common-law rights or remedies. (Added 2019, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 29, eff. July 6, 2020.)