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HB 438 Dam safety; Soil and Water Conservation Board to establish incremental damage analysis procedure.
Introduced by: David J. Toscano | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Dam safety. Requires the Soil and Water Conservation Board to establish an incremental damage analysis procedure that provides for a new standard for the spillway design requirement. The bill requires the Board to adopt regulations that consider the impact of downstream limited-use or private roadways with low traffic volume and low public safety risk in the determination of the hazard potential classification of an impounding structure. The bill also allows an owner of a dam who has received a report from the Board containing recommendations for the correction of deficiencies in the dam to submit his own plan for such corrections. One of the two criteria for designating a dam as unsafe is changed. Currently, if there are serious deficiencies in the design or construction of the dam that, if left unaddressed, could result in a failure that may result in loss of life or damage to downstream property, the dam is cited as being unsafe. The new criterion would be that such deficiencies may result in the loss of life or "significant" damage to downstream property.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/10 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101507D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/10 House: Committee substitute printed 10104610D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/10/10 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB438ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/08/10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/12/10 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101507D
- 01/12/10 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/20/10 House: Assigned ACNRsub: #2 Natural Resources
- 01/27/10 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/10 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/10 House: Committee substitute printed 10104610D-H1
- 02/04/10 House: Read first time
- 02/08/10 House: Read second time
- 02/08/10 House: Committee substitute agreed to 10104610D-H1
- 02/08/10 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB438H1
- 02/09/10 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/10 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/10 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/10 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 03/01/10 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/10 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/10 Senate: Read third time
- 03/03/10 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/10 House: Enrolled
- 03/10/10 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB438ER)
- 03/11/10 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/13/10 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/08/10 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 270 (effective 7/1/10)
- 04/08/10 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270)