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HB1374

Sewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria, ammonia.

Status:
Killed

Chief Patron:
Charles Poindexter (R)

Session:
2018 Regular Session

Summary

As Introduced. Sewerage systems; state adoption of federal criteria; ammonia.

Directs the State Water Control Board not to adopt certain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) freshwater ammonia water quality criteria (the Criteria) until all other states in EPA Regions III and IV have done so, unless the EPA Administrator informs the Commonwealth in writing that such timing is unlawful under the federal Clean Water Act. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to (i) identify any other states that have adopted the Criteria as of July 1, 2018; (ii) identify those procedures for the implementation of the Criteria that will minimize the impact of such implementation on Virginia sewerage systems while complying with the Clean Water Act; and (iii) report its findings to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources, the Senate Finance Committee, and the House Appropriations Committee by November 1, 2018. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/12/2018 - House: Presented and ordered printed 18104995D
  • 01/12/2018 - House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 01/22/2018 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1374)
  • 02/07/2018 - House: Stricken from docket by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)

Full text and vote history:

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