Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

 

AGENDA

 

Room 8

January 29, 2019 - February 1, 2019

Last Updated 2/1/2019 10:22 AM

 

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

10:00 AM                   Clean Water Act

Implementation, Partners, and Long Range Planning

Rebecca Ellis, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Environmental Conservation

Peter LaFlamme, Director, Watershed Management Division, Department of Environmental Conservation

Matthew Chapman, General Counsel, Department of Environmental Conservation

 

10:45 AM                   Break

 

 

11:15 AM                   Clean Water Act

Implementation, partnerships, forward planning

Craig DiGiammarino, Program Manager Highway Division Pollution Prevention and Compliance, Agency of Transportation

Jennifer Callahan, Highway Division Water Quality unit Manager, Agency of Transportation

 

11:30 AM                   Clean Water Act

ACCD Implementation, partnerships, and future planning

Ted Brady, Deputy Commissioner, Agency of Commerce and Community Development

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

9:00 AM                   Clean Water Act

AAFM Overview of  Implementation, Suggestions for Improvement, and Future Planning

Laura DiPietro, Water Quality Division Director, Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets

Ryan Patch, Senior Agriculture Development Coordinator, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

 

9:30 AM                   Clean Water Act

NRCD Implementation, Partnership work, and Future Planning

Jill Arace, Executive Director, Vermont Association of Conservation Districts

Kerry O'Brien, Manager, Caledonia County Natural Resources Conservation District

 

10:00 AM                   Clean Water Act

RPCs Implementation, Suggestions for Improvement, and Future Planning

Charles Baker, Executive Director, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission

Matthew Chapman, General Counsel, Department of Environmental Conservation

 

10:20 AM                   Break

 

11:00 AM                   Clean Water Act

Lake Champlain Committee, Implementation, Suggestions for Improvement and Future Planning

Jared Carpenter, Water Protection Advocate, Lake Champlain Committee - Invited

Matthew Chapman, General Counsel, Department of Environmental Conservation

Jill Arace, Executive Director, Vermont Association of Conservation Districts

 

11:30 AM                   Clean Water Act

Watershed United Vermont

Lyn Munno, Director, Watershed United Vermont

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Thursday, January 31, 2019

9:00 AM                   The Clean Water Act

Eric Howe, Lake Champlain Basin Program

Matthew Vaughan, Lake Champlain Basin Program

 

10:00 AM                   THe Clean Water Act

Phil Huffman, Director of Government Relations and Policy, The Nature Conservancy

Rose Paul, Director of Science and Fresh Water Programs, The Nature Conservancy

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   VIPPA

Mathew Rubin, President, Vermont Independent Power Producers Association

Andrew Locke, Vice President, Vermont Independent Power Producers Association

 

12:00 PM                   Adjourn

 

Friday, February 01, 2019

8:30 AM                   19-0115 - An act relating to the prohibition of plastic carryout bags, expanded polystyrene, and single-use plastic straws

Walk through

Michael O'Grady, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

9:15 AM                   S. 49 - An act relating to the regulation of polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking and surface waters

Options

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

 

9:30 AM                   PFASs

 

 

Matthew Chapman, General Counsel, Department of Environmental Conservation

Peter Walke, Deputy Secretary, Agency of Natural Resources

Jen Duggan, Vice President/Director, Conservation Law Foundation

 

10:00 AM                   Break

 

10:20 AM                   Continued PFASs

Jen Duggan, Vice President/Director, Conservation Law Foundation

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 6 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Jude Newman at 828-2296 or jnewman@leg.state.vt.us