Sometimes things happen quickly in Vermont! Yesterday I reported on the Health Department apparently violating its own rules when they adjusted the measurement of radiation at the perimeter of Vermont Yankee. Today, the Administrative Rules Committee (see section 817 in the link) met and took up the question on their agenda.

The Rules Committee is made up of four House members and four Senate members, and they have the authority to hold hearings on existing or proposed rules, on their own initiative. I'm told that they decided this morning to schedule a public hearing on the Health Department's rule on radiation from Yankee and how it has evolved. No date for the hearing has been set yet.