The Federal Emergency Management Agency is granting $2
million for relocation costs for Vermont ’s
Department for Children and Families, which was displaced from the Waterbury
State Office Complex by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. The funding represents FEMA’s 90 percent
reimbursement of a total eligible cost to the state of $2.3 million to relocate
staff and provide call center facilities through completion of the rebuilding
process at the Waterbury State Office Complex.
Vermont Gas Systems CEO
Don Gilbert says he is confident that the state will approve the company’s
43-mile natural gas pipeline in Addison
County Lake Champlain
to fuel the International Paper plant in Ticonderoga . He hopes the Public Service Board will
approve a permit for that second phase in 2014.
Phase three of the company’s southern expansion is to Rutland .
According to the U.S. Forest Service, fall colors are near
peak display in the higher elevations in Vermont . Fall colors are expected to be the most
vibrant during the next couple of weeks in the higher elevations. Beginning each September, the Forest Service
says they track the progress of fall color.
The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s owners have taken the
first of two formal notification steps to let the federal Nuclear Regulatory
Commission know the plant is shutting down.
An Entergy Corp. executive wrote to the NRC on Monday to submit formal
notification of intent to shut the Vernon
reactor down in the fourth quarter of next year. The company says it doesn’t have a specific
shutdown date yet because it’s not certain when the fuel now in the reactor
will be completely spent. The company says it will provide a final shutdown date
later.
