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The purposes of these rules are:
(1) to obtain and maintain state water quality standards;
(2) to make efficient use of scarce public funds by providing financial assistance, with limited
exceptions, only to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) and Municipally Sponsored
Privately-Owned Wastewater System (MSPOWS) projects that: abate existing public
health and/or environmental problems, and serve locally designated centers, unless there
are health and/or environmental problems outside of growth centers and;
(3) to assure there are appropriate controls on the use of the Agency of Natural Resources
(ANR) funded treatment facilities in order to: minimize polluted runoff from unplanned
land development, the state’s fastest growing source of water contaminants; and to prevent
scattered development and its negative impacts on surface and ground waters, wetlands, air
quality, wildlife habitats, natural areas, threatened and endangered species, and land use
patterns within the host and adjacent communities.
This rule establishes the priority system to be used by the ANR Department of Environmental
Conservation (the Department) for awarding grants and loans from federal and state funds for
POTW and MSPOWS projects. These rules set forth a two-tier system for determining a
project’s eligibility for receipt of a grant or loan from the Department.
To be eligible for a POTW or a MSPOWS project grant or loan from the Agency for the final
design or construction of a new wastewater treatment facility, an increase in the treatment
capacity of an existing wastewater treatment facility, and/or a sewer line extension the
applicant must demonstrate that the project is designed to serve only a locally designated
center, unless there are significant health and environmental problems located outside of a
growth center. If a sewer line serving a growth center must be located partially outside of a
designated center in order to abate an existing pollution problem or to connect a treatment
plant with a growth center or to connect one or more growth centers, the municipality must
demonstrate that the impacts of growth resulting from the infrastructure can be adequately
managed, and will not contribute to scattered development. After an applicant has met this
initial test, the rules set out a pollution-based priority system to determine the order in which
POTW of MSPOWS projects will be awarded grant or loan funds.

These rules establish procedures and standards to protect public health and the
environment by ensuring the safe, proper, and sustainable management of solid waste in
Vermont. The current Solid Waste Management Rules went into effect on October 31,
2020.

These regulations are intended to protect public health and the environment by comprehensively
regulating the generation, storage, collection, transport, treatment, disposal, use, reuse, and
recycling of hazardous waste in Vermont.

These rules are intended to protect public health and the environment by establishing
standards for the design, installation, operation, maintenance, monitoring and closure of
underground storage tanks. These rules apply to persons who own or operate, install,
remove, repair, or test underground storage tank systems.

These rules are intended to protect public health and the environment by:
(1) Establishing standards for the design and installation of new aboveground
storage tank systems and substantial alteration to existing aboveground
storage tank systems; and
(2) Establishing standards for the design, installation, and operation of new bulk
tank systems and substantial alteration of existing bulk tank systems.

(a) These Rules apply to discharges to injection wells.
(b) These Rules are not intended to affect other existing regulations including, but not limited to, the
Vermont Groundwater Protection Rule and Strategy and rules adopted by the Vermont Department of
Health.
(c) These Rules do not limit the powers of federal, state or local authorities to control existing or potential
threats to human health or the environment.

(a) These rules are adopted under the Secretary's authority pursuant to 3 V.S.A.
Chapter 25 and 10 V.S.A. Chapter 53.
(b) These rules apply to:
(1) A person manufacturing or distributing a container;
(2) A person selling a container at the retail level or operating a business for
the purpose of redeeming a container; and
(3) A person returning a beverage container to collect the deposit on a
container.
(c) These rules do not apply to beer or other malt beverages contained in kegs, halfkegs,
quarter-kegs, or pony-kegs provided that a deposit on the keg is charged to
the consumer for the use of the keg and refunded to the consumer upon return of
the keg to the retailer.

(a) These rules establish standards and procedures that the Secretary uses in reviewing
permit applications for indirect discharges and in the issuance and administration of
indirect discharge permits under the authority referenced in §14-101 above. These
rules further implement the policies established in the Water Pollution Control Act (10
V.S.A. Chapter 47) and in the Groundwater Protection Act (10 V.S.A., Chapter 48). It
is the purpose of these rules to insure that:
(1) Indirect discharges comply with the provisions of the Vermont Water Quality
Standards.
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(2) Indirect discharges and associated treatment and disposal systems are designed and
constructed in a manner that will provide reliable protection of the public health,
groundwater, and surface water during operation and maintenance.
(3) New indirect discharges of sewage from systems with a design capacity of 6,500 gpd
or more:
(A) will not significantly alter the aquatic biota in the receiving waters,
(B) will not pose more than a negligible risk to the public health, and
(C) will be consistent with existing and potential beneficial uses of the waters.

The purpose of this rule is to protect public health and the environment by providing for the licensing of water and monitoring well drillers, the recording and reporting of each well drilled, and the closure of abandoned wells. The Water Well Advisory Committee is established as a forum for the well driller industry and other interested parties to advise and assist agency staff on well drilling and groundwater issues.

It is the purpose of these rules to standardize the administrative penalties assessed by
the Secretary through the establishment of penalty classes and ranges to assist in
carrying out the goals established by the Legislature in Act 98 (1989 Session), as
amended by Act 191 (2008 Session),10 V.S.A. Chapter 201.