Vermont § 952 - Federal flood control program; natural resources conservation districts as sponsoring agencies

§ 952. Federal flood control program; natural resources conservation districts as sponsoring agencies

• (a) The natural resources conservation districts may act as local sponsoring agencies
  under the provisions of Public Law 83-566, for carrying out programs for flood control,
  stream bank protection, and channel improvements, as well as land treatment and drainage,
  subject to review and approval by the Department of Environmental Conservation of
  all plans for projects that affect stream flow. (b) A municipality, when authorized by a majority of the voters voting at a meeting warned
  and held for that purpose, may purchase, or acquire by gift, title to land within
  the State for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating improvements
  for flood prevention or conserving, developing, using, and disposing of water under
  Public Law 83-566, and may pay 100 percent or less of the nonfederal costs thereof. (Amended 1961, No. 100, § 2(b); 1963, No. 111; 1961, No. 79, § 1(b), eff. May 7, 1963; 1966, No. 27 (Sp. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 12, 1966; 1967, No. 303 (Adj. Sess.), § 15(b), eff. March 22, 1968; 1981, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 1987, No. 76, § 18.)