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2020 SESSION

20104870D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1310
Offered January 8, 2020
Prefiled January 8, 2020
A BILL to require the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a process for notice of disposal of certain fill materials.
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Patron-- Webert
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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Environmental Quality shall establish a process whereby if private contractors and agencies of the Commonwealth or its contractors receive a general construction permit from the Department, and such contractor or agency shall be disposing excess non-agricultural fill as part of its work, the contractor or agency shall disclose such fact to all localities where such fill shall be disposed. The disclosure shall include information regarding the source of the material to be disposed, the contents of the material, and the location of the disposal. In addition, all landowners adjacent to the location where the material is to be disposed shall receive the same information, with notice delivered pursuant to § 15.2-2204 of the Code of Virginia.