Vermont § 38 - Special funds There is created a Hazardous Chemical and Substance Emergency Response Fund that shall include all monies paid to the State pursuant to section 39 of this title

§ 38. Special funds There is created a Hazardous Chemical and Substance Emergency Response Fund that shall include all monies paid to the State pursuant to section 39 of this title

• . The Fund shall be managed pursuant to the provisions of 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5. The Fund shall be used to implement and administer this chapter, including
  planning, training, and response activities as well as the purchase of equipment and
  assisting local organizations referred to in section 6 of this chapter to develop
  emergency plans. Each local emergency planning committee shall receive an annual grant
  from the Commissioner of Public Safety. The annual total grant amount to be allocated
  to local emergency planning committees statewide shall not exceed $52,000.00, and
  the Commissioner shall divide the total annual grant amount equally among the local
  emergency planning committees. After disbursement of the funding and after consideration
  of the comments and evaluation received from the local emergency planning committee
  and the State Emergency Response Commission, the Commissioner of Public Safety at
  the Commissioner’s discretion may make additional grants from the Fund to any local
  emergency planning committee or regional emergency response commission as well as
  to any political subdivisions including any city, town, fire district, incorporated
  village and other incorporated entities in the State in accordance with rules adopted
  by the State Emergency Response Commission. Unless waived by the State Emergency Response
  Commission, grants shall be matched by local governments in the amount of 25 percent
  of the grant. The matching may be by contribution or by privately furnished funds
  or by in-kind services, space, or equipment that would otherwise be purchased by a
  local emergency planning committee. (Added 1989, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 26; amended 1993, No. 194 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. June 14, 1994; 1995, No. 178 (Adj. Sess.), § 425, eff. May 22, 1996; 1997, No. 59, § 5, eff. June 30, 1997; 1999, No. 49, § 206; 2001, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 114; 2003, No. 66, §§ 97a, 97b; 2005, No. 209 (Adj. Sess.), § 26; 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 68b; 2007, No. 65, § 71a; 2007, No. 192 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.904; 2009, No. 33, § 41; 2021, No. 20, § 126; 2021, No. 52, § 16.)