20 V.S.A. § 3a

(a) In addition to other duties required by law, the Division of Emergency Management shall:

(1) Establish and maintain a comprehensive State emergency management strategy that includes an emergency management plan; establish and define regional emergency management committees; and prepare an all-hazards mitigation plan in cooperation with other State, regional, and local agencies in compliance with adopted federal standards for emergency management. The strategy shall be designed to protect the lives and property, including domestic animals, of persons within this State who might be threatened as the result of all-hazards, and shall align State coordination structures, capabilities, and resources into a unified and multidisciplined all-hazards approach to incident management.

(2) Assist the State Emergency Response Commission, the local emergency planning committees, the regional emergency management committees, and the municipally established local organizations referred to in section 6 of this title in carrying out their designated emergency functions, including developing, implementing, and coordinating emergency plans.

(3) Annually on or before the last legislative day in January, provide an update and presentation to the House Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs and the Senate Committee on Government Operations concerning all action items in the all-hazards mitigation plan required by subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(b) Each fiscal year, the Division of Emergency Management, in collaboration with State and local agencies, the management of the nuclear reactor, the legislative bodies of the municipalities in the emergency planning zone where the nuclear reactor is located, the Windham Regional Planning Commission, and any other municipality or emergency planning zone entity required by the State to support the Radiological Emergency Response Plan, shall develop the budget for expenditures from the Radiological Emergency Response Plan Fund. The expenditure budget shall include all costs for evacuation notification systems.

(c) From the Fund, each town within the emergency planning zone shall receive an annual base payment of no less than $5,000.00 for radiological emergency response-related expenditures from the Radiological Emergency Response Plan Fund. Additional expenditures by municipalities in the emergency planning zone, the Windham Regional Planning Commission, and any other municipality or emergency planning entity defined by the State as required to support the Plan shall be determined during the budget development process established by subsection (b) of this section.