§ 2805 - Environmental permit fund
§ 2805. Environmental permit fund
There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the environmental permit fund for the purpose of implementing the programs specified under the provisions of 3 V.S.A. § 2822(i) and (j). Revenues to the fund shall be those fees collected in accordance with 3 V.S.A. § 2822(i) and (j), and 10 V.S.A. § 2625 and gifts and appropriations. The secretary of natural resources shall be responsible for the fund and shall account for the revenues and expenditures of the agency of natural resources. Any fee required to be collected under 3 V.S.A. § 2822(j)(1) shall be utilized solely to cover all reasonable (direct or indirect) costs required to support the operating permit program authorized under 10 V.S.A. chapter 23. Any fee required to be collected under 3 V.S.A. § 2822(k), (l), or (m) for air pollution control permits or registrations or motor vehicle registrations shall be utilized solely to cover all reasonable (direct or indirect) costs required to support the programs authorized under 10 V.S.A. chapter 23. Fees collected pursuant to subsections 2822(k), (l), and (m) of this title shall be used by the secretary to fund activities related to the secretary's hazardous or toxic contaminant monitoring programs and motor vehicle-related programs. The environmental permit fund shall be subject to the provisions of subchapter 5 of chapter 7 of Title 32, except that any unencumbered environmental permit fund balance in excess of those fees collected under subdivision 2822(j)(1) and subsections (k), (l), and (m) of this title, and in excess of $350,000.00 from those fees collected from environmental permit fund sources other than subdivision 2822(j)(1) and subsections (k), (l), and (m) at the close of a fiscal year shall revert to the general fund. The environmental permit fund shall be used to cover a portion of the costs of administering the environmental court established under chapter 27 of Title 4. The amount of $143,000.00 per fiscal year shall be disbursed for this purpose. (Added 1989, No. 279 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 30, 1990; amended 1993, No. 92, § 8; 1995, No. 186 (Adj. Sess.), § 19, eff. May 22, 1996; 1997, No. 15, § 2, eff. May 6, 1997; 1997, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), § 31; 2001, No. 65, § 22; 2003, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 18; 2007, No. 65, § 397, eff. June 4, 2007.)