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HB 1135 Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit; certain conditions for owner of sewage facility.

Introduced by: Harvey B. Morgan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Wastewater discharge permits. Requires the owner or operator of a wastewater treatment facility with a discharge greater than 1,000 gallons per day up to 39,999 gallons per day that has not begun the discharge of pollutants prior to January 1, 2011, to demonstrate to the Department of Environmental Quality that he has acquired waste load allocations sufficient to offset his nitrogen and phosphorus discharges.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Wastewater discharge permits.  Establishes procedures that the State Water Control Board should follow in determining whether to issue a Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination permit for a treatment facility that is proposing to discharge sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes of 40,000 gallons or less per day into waters of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. In the case of these proposed small wastewater facilities, for a permit application to be considered complete, it has to include an economic and environmental analysis of various alternatives to the construction of a new facility, such as land application, connection to existing facility, or "pump and haul." If the State Water Control Board determines that the various alternatives are not feasible, then the Board may issue a permit. However, if an alternative to constructing a facility is found to be effective in handling the waste stream, the Board would not issue a permit.