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HB 1307 Stormwater management; rural Tidewater, tiered approach to water quantity technical criteria.
Introduced by: M. Keith Hodges | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Stormwater management; rural Tidewater; tiered approach to water quantity technical criteria; impervious cover percentage. Allows any rural Tidewater locality, as defined in the bill, to comply with water quantity technical criteria for certain land-disturbing activities based on the percentage of impervious cover in the watershed. The bill provides that any eligible locality electing to use certain control standards shall, by ordinance, adopt an official map that indicates the percentage of impervious cover in each watershed within the locality and shall update the map at least annually. The bill allows any such locality to apply one of the following three standards for managing water quantity to any new development project: (i) if the site, as indicated on the map, has less than 5.0 percent impervious cover, the standard shall be a particular State Water Control Board regulation; (ii) if the watershed has 5.0 percent or more but less than 7.5 percent impervious cover, the standard shall be the one-year, 24-hour release method; and (iii) if the watershed has 7.5 percent or more impervious cover, the standard shall be the energy balance method. The bill provides that any project whose construction would cause the watershed in which it is located to step up to the next higher tier shall be evaluated under the energy balance method or a more stringent alternative.
The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to use an appropriate new or existing Regulatory Advisory Panel to assist in clarifying the interpretation and application of the MS-19 standard.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/18 House: Presented and ordered printed 18103913D pdf
- 02/05/18 House: Printed as engrossed 18103913D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/22/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1307ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/18 House: Presented and ordered printed 18103913D
- 01/10/18 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/29/18 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/30/18 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/18 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/18 House: Read first time
- 02/05/18 House: Read second time
- 02/05/18 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/05/18 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1307E
- 02/05/18 House: Printed as engrossed 18103913D-E
- 02/06/18 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/18 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/18 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/15/18 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/18 Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/18 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/18 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/18 House: Enrolled
- 02/22/18 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1307ER)
- 02/22/18 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/23/18 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/18 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- 02/26/18 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- 03/05/18 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 154 (effective 7/1/18)
- 03/05/18 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)