In re Catamount Slate, Inc.

¶ 1. In this appeal from an order of the environmental board, we examine a 1995 amendment to Act 250,10 V.S.A. chapter 151, delineating the Act’s jurisdiction over Vermont’s slate quarries. See 1995, No. 30. The central question presented is whether a district coordinator and the environmental board may reopen a final determination issued pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6007(c) on a slate quarry’s exempt status under Act 250 at the request of neighbors who were not notified of and served with the original opinion holding the quarry exempt. Under the facts presented here, we conclude that the…