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2021 SESSION

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HB 2129 Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Imp. Plan; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Prog. established.

Introduced by: Alfonso H. Lopez | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)

Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Program), consisting of a number of total nitrogen and total phosphorous waste load allocation reductions assigned to particular water treatment facilities with schedules for compliance. The bill provides that the ENRC Program shall operate in lieu of certain Chesapeake Bay waste load regulations. The bill directs the Board to modify affected discharge permits to incorporate the provisions of the ENRC Program and requires certain compliance plans due from treatment works beginning February 1, 2023, to address the requirements of the ENRC Program.

The bill provides that the funding of certain design and installation costs for implementing nutrient upgrades pursuant to the ENRC Program shall be eligible for grants from the Water Quality Improvement Fund. The bill lists the projects and the total nitrogen or total phosphorus waste load allocation reductions that specified facilities are to complete. The bill provides that when grants to finance nutrient removal technology reach a sum sufficient to fund the completion of the ENRC Program at all publicly owned treatment works, certain General Assembly committees shall review funding needs and mechanisms.

Finally, the bill provides that the priority projects and waste load allocation reductions that it sets forth shall be deemed to implement goals of the Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP). It authorizes the Secretary of Natural Resources to develop an additional watershed implementation plan if he determines on or after July 1, 2026, that the Commonwealth has not achieved or will not be able to maintain the nitrogen pollution reduction commitments it made in the Phase III WIP.

FULL TEXT

• 01/12/21  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102709D  pdf
• 01/27/21  House: Committee substitute printed 21103828D-H1  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
• House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

HISTORY

• 01/12/21  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102709D
• 01/12/21  House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
• 01/15/21  House: Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
• 01/25/21  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
• 01/25/21  House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 01/27/21  House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with substitute (18-Y 4-N)
• 01/27/21  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 01/27/21  House: Committee substitute printed 21103828D-H1
• 01/27/21  House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources
• 01/29/21  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 1-N)
• 01/29/21  House: Reported from Appropriations (14-Y 8-N)
• 02/01/21  House: Read first time
• 02/02/21  House: Read second time
• 02/02/21  House: Committee substitute agreed to 21103828D-H1
• 02/02/21  House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2129H1
• 02/03/21  House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 39-N)
• 02/03/21  House: VOTE: Passage (58-Y 39-N)
• 02/04/21  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/04/21  Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
• 02/05/21  Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)