MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources intends to deny a Moretown landfill’s request to recertify two areas where it disposes of trash, but will first hold a 30-day comment period and won’t make a final decision until March on whether the landfill must stop accepting trash, officials say.

The agency said in a Thursday letter that the design and operation of the landfill off U.S. Route 2 and visible from Interstate 89 did not do enough to prevent nuisance odors. The landfill is one of two in Vermont, which serve as disposal sites for most of the state’s trash.

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