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2020 SESSION
HB 643 Pipeline construction; certification requirement, minimum diameter, stop work orders.
Introduced by: Chris L. Hurst | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Pipeline construction; certification requirement; minimum diameter; stop work orders. Reduces from 36 inches to 24 inches the minimum inside diameter of a natural gas transmission pipeline for which an individual Virginia Water Protection Permit, rather than a general permit, is required to conduct activities in wetlands or state waters or an additional upland activity certification is required to obtain a Clean Water Act Certification. The bill reduces from 15 percent to 10 percent the minimum grade of a slope on which any construction activities will trigger the requirement for such additional upland activity certification. The measure requires the Department of Environmental Quality, within five business days of the issuance of a stop work instruction, to notify the pipeline company of specific corrective measures that shall be completed and approved by the Department before any land-disturbing activity may be resumed. The bill authorizes the State Water Control Board, in addition to the Department, to issue such stop work instructions and adds requirements and restrictions on any further construction once such an instruction is issued.
FULL TEXT
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104036D pdf
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107653D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/06/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104036D
- 01/06/20 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/14/20 House: Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
- 02/05/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/05/20 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/05/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20107653D-H1
- 02/06/20 House: Read first time
- 02/07/20 House: Read second time
- 02/07/20 House: Committee substitute agreed to 20107653D-H1
- 02/07/20 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB643H1
- 02/10/20 House: Read third time and passed House (57-Y 41-N 1-A)
- 02/10/20 House: VOTE: Passage (57-Y 41-N 1-A)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/18/20 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (13-Y 1-N)