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Date Posted: 14:02:35 02/25/03 Tue
Author: Douglas and Environmental Conservation
Subject: Lelamb

Editorial from today’s Free Press (Vermont’s largest newspapers for you flatlanders out there.)

“The Douglas administration might be falling into an old Vermont habit of over-promising and under-delivering. After pledging to rebuild the state's creaky permit process, Gov. Jim Douglas proposes to cut the budget of the state agency responsible for enforcing many environmental laws.

“The Environmental Conservation Department was in the news a year or so ago following the revelation that earlier budget cuts had left the agency shorthanded and with a backlog of more than 1,000 expired stormwater permits. The Dean administration transferred some workers to deal with the immediate permit situation, but the incident was widely seen as another example of the state failing to enforce its own laws and regulations.

”Vermont needs a modern, efficient permitting system, one that is both predictable and well managed. Most important, people planning projects that will affect the Vermont environment should have no doubt that the state is serious about its own rules and regulations -- that the state behaves like a watchdog and not a bureaucratic paper tiger.

“The Legislature still has far to go before approving the Environmental Conservation Department budget. It would be false economy to weaken the department and cut the number of front-long troops defending the state's natural heritage.

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