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2010 SESSION
SB 708 Nutrient Offset Fund; established.
Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Water Quality Improvement Fund; nutrient offsets. Creates the Nutrient Offset Fund as a subfund of the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund to be administered by the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality for the purchase of nutrient reductions certified under the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Credit Exchange Program. Using moneys from the subfund, the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality may enter into long-term contracts with producers of nutrient offsets to purchase such offsets. Priority shall be given to nutrient offsets produced from facilities that generate electricity from animal waste. The nutrient offsets purchased with moneys from the subfund will be available for sale to owners or operators of new or expanded facilities required to offset nutrient loads through the watershed general permit.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/10 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 10104190D pdf
- 02/03/10 Senate: Printed as engrossed 10104190D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/22/10 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 10104190D
- 01/22/10 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/01/10 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/10 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/10 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/10 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/03/10 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/03/10 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB708E
- 02/03/10 Senate: Printed as engrossed 10104190D-E
- 02/04/10 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/10 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/17/10 House: Read first time
- 02/17/10 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/23/10 House: Assigned App. sub: Economic Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources
- 03/14/10 House: Left in Appropriations