In Re H. A. Manosh Corp.

Respondent, H.A. Manosh Corporation, appeals the decision of the Vermont Environmental Board (Board) finding its gravel pit operation to be no longer entitled to the statutory permit exemption accorded pre-existing uses under 10 V.S.A. ch. 151 (hereinafter referred to as Act 250). See 10 V.S.A. § 6081(b). We affirm.

In 1969, respondent purchased a forty-eight acre tract of land known as the Ferland gravel pit in Hyde Park, Vermont. The respondent and the petitioners, an association of neighboring landowners, agree that the pit operation constituted development commenced prior to June 1, 1970,…