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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I

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SB 1319 Waste Diversion & Recycling Task Force; Department of Environmental Quality to continue Task Force.

Introduced by: Ghazala F. Hashmi | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to continue and expand the scope and membership of the Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force. The bill directs the Task Force to hold its first meeting of the 2021 interim no later than October 15, 2021, and to publish an executive summary and a report of its findings and recommendations no later than November 1, 2022.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to continue and expand the scope of the Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Waste control and recycling; permits. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) and the Virginia Waste Management Board from issuing any permit for the construction, modification, or expansion of a new or existing municipal solid waste landfill that will accept 3,500 tons or more of municipal solid waste per day until the General Assembly enacts legislation incorporating the findings and recommendations of the Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force (the Task Force), and requests the Department to continue through 2022 and expand the scope of the Task Force.