| Bills |
Committee |
Last action |
Date |
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HB 148 -
Cole - Stormwater management program; includes enlargement,
improvement and maintenance of dams. |
(H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
(S) Committee on Local Government |
(G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (effective
7/1/06) |
02/23/06 |
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notes: Provides that income
derived from stormwater control program service charges shall be
dedicated special revenue and may be used only to pay or recover
costs for specified purposes, including the improvement or
maintenance of dams, whether publicly or privately owned, that serve
to control stormwater. |
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HB 552 -
Saxman - Regional water supply plans; allows town to enter into
with an adjacent county. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 18 (effective
7/1/06) |
02/23/06 |
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notes: Allows a town to
enter into a regional water supply plan with an adjacent county. |
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HB 596 -
Sherwood - Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund; Fund
includes dam safety, report. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations
(S) Committee on Finance |
(H) Enrolled |
03/15/06 |
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notes: Reconstitutes the
current Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund into the new
Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund. The new
fund will be used to make loans and grants to local governments and
loans to private entities to finance the cost of implementing
projects to prevent, reduce, or mitigate damages caused by flooding,
to upgrade dams or impounding structures, and to fund flood
prevention studies. The Virginia Resources Authority would
administer and manage the fund, determining the interest rate and
terms and conditions of any loan from the Fund in accordance with a
memorandum of understanding with the Director of the Department of
Conservation and Recreation. The language establishing the Fund is
modeled after language creating the Virginia Resources Authority,
the Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund, and the Virginia Water
Supply Revolving Fund. This bill is identical to SB 624. |
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HB 684 -
Rust - Erosion & Sediment Control & Stormwater Management Acts;
clarifies acceptable flow rates. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 21 (effective
7/1/06) |
02/23/06 |
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notes: Provides definitions
of terms in the Erosion and Sediment Control and Stormwater
Management Acts that clarify what are acceptable flow rates from
storm runoff at sites where land development projects are occurring. |
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HB 963 -
Bulova - Income tax, state; agricultural best management
practices tax credit. |
(H) Committee on Finance
(S) Committee on Finance |
(S) Signed by President |
03/08/06 |
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notes: Adds taxpayers who
have equines that create needs for agricultural best management
practices to those who are engaged in agricultural production for
market who may qualify for the agricultural best management
practices tax credit, for taxable years beginning on or after
January 1, 2007. |
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HB 1134 -
Cline - Sewage sludge; Bd. of Health to promulgate regulations
establishing fee imposed on permit holders. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/02/06 |
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notes: Requires the Board
of Health to promulgate regulations establishing an initial fee of
$5,000 to be imposed upon permit holders and applicants and a fee
not to exceed $1,000 for the reissuance, amendment or modification
of a permit. Fees collected are to be deposited into the Sludge
Management Fund for the administration and management of the
Department of Health's sewage sludge program. Currently, the Board
may adopt regulations requiring permittees to pay a reasonable fee,
not to exceed $2,500, for the processing of the application for a
sewage sludge permit. |
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HB 1150 -
Lingamfelter - Chesapeake Bay and Waters Clean-up and Oversight
Act; created. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/13/06 |
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notes: Requires the
Secretary of Natural Resources to develop a clean-up plan for the
Chesapeake Bay and Virginia waters that have been designated as
impaired. The plan will include measurable objectives, a description
of the strategies to meet the plan's objectives, time frames for
accomplishing the objectives, and a plan for disbursing funds for
point and nonpoint pollution projects. The plan will also include an
analysis of alternative funding mechanisms. The Secretary is to
submit the plan by January 1, 2007, and is to submit a progress
report on the clean-up semi-annually. |
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HB 1185 -
Landes - Agriculture & livestock; Water Protection Permit not
required for certain riparian landowners. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/13/06 |
|
notes: Prohibits the
requirement of a Virginia Water Protection Permit for privately
owned and retained water located outside the path of regularly
flowing surface water or for any water withdrawal for livestock
watering or crop production within maximum withdrawal limits to be
set by the Board. |
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HB 1454 -
Scott, E.T. - Wetlands and stream restoration; companies to file
erosion & sediment control specifications. |
(H) Committee on Appropriations
(S) Committee on Finance |
(H) Signed by Speaker |
03/10/06 |
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notes: Allows any person
who has created and operates an approved wetlands mitigation bank in
multiple jurisdictions to annually file erosion and sediment control
specifications for wetlands mitigation projects with the Virginia
Soil and Water Conservation Board. The Board has 60 days to approve
the specifications. If no action is taken within 60 days the
specifications are deemed approved. Projects that are not covered by
general specifications will have to comply with the local erosion
and sediment control program. This bill will not become effective
unless a specific appropriation has been approved in the general
appropriation act to support this activity. |
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HB 1457 -
Ware, R.L. - Impaired waters; Water Control Board to evaluate
attainability of meeting water quality standards. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/02/06 |
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notes: Allows an aggrieved
party to conduct a use attainability analysis in order to
demonstrate that the attainment of the designated use for an
impaired water body is not feasible. This analysis would be
submitted to, and reviewed by, the State Water Control Board. The
Board would then determine whether the development or implementation
of the total maximum daily load should be delayed. |
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SB 82 -
Watkins - Solid waste containers; requirements for containers
carrying nonhazardous waste on State waters. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/13/06 |
|
notes: Establishes
specifications for the structural integrity of containers carrying
nonhazardous solid waste on vessels operating in Virginia waters.
The bill contains a specific water tightness standard that these
containers will have to meet. |
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SB 106 -
Blevins - Waste discharge permits; consent of local governing
body required before Water Control Board issues. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Enrolled |
03/15/06 |
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notes: Requires the consent
of the local governing body before the State Water Control Board
approves an application for a new or modified Virginia Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System permit authorizing discharge of
stormwater runoff from a municipal waste landfill or related
facility into a local watershed protection district established by
ordinance prior to January 1, 2006, that the discharge is consistent
with the local watershed protection ordinance. This bill applies to
new and modified individual Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System permits and new and modified coverage under general Virginia
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits. |
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SB 274 -
Whipple - Stormwater management program; certain localities
required to adopt thereto. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/01/06 |
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notes: Requires localities
located in Tidewater and those that are classified as an MS4 under
the federal Clean Water Act to adopt a local stormwater management
program in accordance with a schedule established by the Virginia
Soil and Water Conservation Board. The locality is to adopt its
stormwater program between 12 and 18 months after the effective date
of the Board's regulation that establishes local program criteria
and delegation procedures. Under current law these localities are to
adopt a program by July 1, 2006. Any locality that isn't in
Tidewater or classified as an MS4 can choose to administer its own
program (seek delegation) within six months following the effective
date of the regulation. The bill also increases the maximum fine for
violation of the provisions of the stormwater law from a civil
penalty of $25,000 to $32,500. |
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SB 624 -
Bell - Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund; Fund
includes dam safety, report. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Finance |
(H) VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N) |
03/09/06 |
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notes: Reconstitutes the
current Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund into the new
Dam Safety, Flood Prevention and Protection Assistance Fund. The new
fund will be used to make loans and grants to local governments and
loans to private entities to finance the cost of implementing
projects to prevent, reduce, or mitigate damages caused by flooding,
to upgrade dams or impounding structures, and to fund flood
prevention studies. The Virginia Resources Authority would
administer and manage the fund, determining the interest rate and
terms and conditions of any loan from the Fund in accordance with a
memorandum of understanding with the Director of the Department of
Conservation and Recreation. The Director of Conservation and
Recreation would make the decision on how the moneys in the Fund
would be disbursed. The language establishing the Fund is modeled
after language creating the Virginia Resources Authority, the
Virginia Water Facilities Revolving Fund, and the Virginia Water
Supply Revolving Fund. This bill is identical to HB 596. |
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SB 644 -
Watkins - Water Quality Improvement Fund; disbursement of grant
moneys. |
(H) Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources
(S) Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources |
(S) Signed by President |
03/08/06 |
|
notes: Allows new or
expanding publicly owned treatment works that are not defined as
significant dischargers, but are subject to the State Water Control
Board's new nutrient control requirements and will have to install
nutrient removal technology, similar to the significant dischargers,
to apply for matching grant moneys from the Water Quality
Improvement Fund. Currently, only those plants that are defined as
significant dischargers are eligible to receive grants from the
Fund. The bill also authorizes the Department of Environmental
Quality to utilize the Fund for design and installation nutrient
removal technologies. Currently, grants to sewage treatment
facilities are allocated for two uses, with the larger portion used
for biological nutrient removal facilities and other appropriate
nutrient removal technologies, and the smaller portion being used
for only state-of-the-art facilities. The bill would remove this
state-of-the-art restriction on the smaller portion. |
|
SJ 82 -
Houck - Water systems; JLARC to study small community public
water systems. |
(H) Committee on Rules
(S) Committee on Rules |
(H) VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) |
03/06/06 |
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notes: Directs the Joint
Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study very small and
small community water systems in Virginia. JLARC shall determine
whether the needs of Virginia's citizens are being met through the
existing regulatory scheme with regard to both water quality and
rates charged and shall make recommendations on any needed
improvements. |
