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2017 SESSION

17105553D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2383
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
on February 16, 2017)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Lingamfelter)
A BILL to direct compliance with regulations of certain combined sewer overflow outfalls; Potomac River Watershed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) shall identify the owner of any combined sewer overflow (CSO) outfall that discharges into the Potomac River Watershed.

§ 2. That DEQ shall determine what actions by the owner are necessary to bring the CSO outfall into compliance with the Presumption Approach described in the CSO Control Policy adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at 59 C.F.R. 18688, unless a higher level of control is necessary to comply with a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).

§ 3. That any owner of a CSO outfall that discharges into the Potomac River Watershed shall bring the CSO outfall into compliance with the Presumption Approach described in the EPA CSO Control Policy by July 1, 2025, unless a higher level of control is necessary to comply with a TMDL.