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SB 1235 Retail Sales and Use Tax; increased, creates Water Quality Improvement Restricted Use Fund.

Introduced by: Frederick M. Quayle | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Capitalizing the Water Quality Improvement Fund.  Appropriates $50 million from the general fund to the Water Improvement Quality Fund on July 1, 2005.  The money is to be used solely to finance the costs of design and installation of biological nutrient removal facilities or other nutrient removal technologies at publicly-owned sewage systems.  In addition, beginning July 1, 2005, the annual appropriations to the Fund provided from the 10 percent general fund surplus and the 10 percent of any unreserved general fund year-end balance will have a different distribution formula.  Seventy percent of these moneys will be allocated to the Department of Conservation and Recreation to be used for the implementation of best management practices that reduce nitrogen and phosphorous nonpoint source pollution, and 30 percent will be allocated to the Department of Environmental Quality to make grants to significant dischargers and to treatment works that utilize the Public-Private Education Facilities and Infrastructure Act, to design and install state-of-the-art nutrient removal technology. The amount of financing available to the treatment facility for point source nutrient removal technologies, whether the source of funding is the 10 percent surplus and 10 percent unexpended balance, or the $50 million appropriation, will depend on the financial need of the community, which will be determined by comparing the annual sewer charges expended within the service area to the reasonable sewer costs established for the community.

The bill also directs the chairman of the committees of oversight to develop recommendations for a permanent source of funding that will clean up the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, as well as other impaired waters outside the Bay watershed.  This bill is identical to SB 810 and HB 2777.


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