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2005 SESSION
SB 1275 Nutrient Credit Exchange Program; created.
Introduced by: John C. Watkins | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Nutrient trading. Establishes a nutrient exchange or trading program that would allow point source dischargers to achieve and maintain compliance with the waste load cap allocations for nitrogen and phosphorous delivered to the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries. The State Water Control Board would be required to issue a general permit under the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System to eligible point source dischargers of nitrogen and phosphorous. The facilities that obtain such a permit, and which are interested in participating in the trading program, would be identified together with their individual load cap allocations and trading ratios. The trading association authorized by the bill would provide the mechanism by which those permittees under the general permit would be matched with nutrient trading partners. Within nine months of the issuance of the general permit, the permitees either individually or through the trading association would be required to submit compliance plans to DEQ. The compliance plans would have to include any capital projects and the implementation schedules needed to achieve the nitrogen and phosphorous reductions needed to comply with the waste load allocations for all the permitees in a particular tributary. This bill is identical to HB 2862.
FULL TEXT
- 01/19/05 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 051655840 pdf
- 02/07/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 051695840-S1 pdf
- 02/08/05 Senate: Printed as engrossed 051695840-ES1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/05 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1275ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/04/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/19/05 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 051655840
- 01/19/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/07/05 Senate: Reported from A. C. & N. R. w/sub (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/05 Senate: Committee substitute printed 051695840-S1
- 02/08/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Read second time
- 02/08/05 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/05 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 051695840-S1
- 02/08/05 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/08/05 Senate: Amendments by Sen. Watkins agreed to
- 02/08/05 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - com. sub. w/amds SB1275ES1
- 02/08/05 Senate: Printed as engrossed 051695840-ES1
- 02/08/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (38-Y 2-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Rec. of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/05 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/11/05 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/11/05 House: Read first time
- 02/11/05 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/16/05 House: Reported from A., C. & N. R. w/amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/05 House: Read second time
- 02/18/05 House: Read third time
- 02/18/05 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/18/05 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/18/05 House: Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/05 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/05 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/05 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/05 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1275ER)
- 03/09/05 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/09/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 708 (effective 7/1/05)
- 04/04/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0708)