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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
SB 1354 Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment, Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program established.
Introduced by: Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (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.
The bill provides that the ENRC Program shall be deemed to implement through January 1, 2026, the Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan. The bill provides that if, after July 1, 2026, Virginia has not achieved its nitrogen pollution reduction commitments in the Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan, the Secretary of Natural Resources may develop an additional watershed implementation plan. This bill is identical to HB 2129.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101859D pdf
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103786D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/05/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21103786D-ES1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/15/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21200201D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1354ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/12/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101859D
- 01/12/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21103786D-S1
- 02/04/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/04/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/04/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21103786D-S1
- 02/05/21 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/05/21 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/05/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1354ES1
- 02/05/21 Senate: Printed as engrossed 21103786D-ES1
- 02/05/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/21 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/07/21 House: Read first time
- 02/07/21 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
- 02/10/21 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/21 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/15/21 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/15/21 House: Committee substitute printed 21200201D-H1
- 02/17/21 House: Read second time
- 02/18/21 House: Read third time
- 02/18/21 House: Committee substitute agreed to 21200201D-H1
- 02/18/21 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1354H1
- 02/18/21 House: Passed House with substitute (65-Y 35-N)
- 02/18/21 House: VOTE: Passage (65-Y 35-N)
- 02/22/21 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/21 Senate: Title replaced 21200201D-H1
- 02/24/21 Senate: Enrolled
- 02/24/21 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1354ER)
- 02/24/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/25/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/21 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- 03/01/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/25/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 364 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0364)