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2023 SESSION

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HB 2126 Stormwater management & erosion & sediment control; installation of permanent gravel access roads.

Introduced by: Tony O. Wilt | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Department of Environmental Quality; stormwater management and erosion and sediment control plans; gravel access roads; electric utilities. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to include specifications regarding certain activities for stormwater management and erosion and sediment control related to the installation of permanent gravel access roads by an electric utility in the next publication of the Department's Virginia Stormwater Management Handbook (the Handbook). The bill permits any electric utility that complies with such specifications to be deemed to satisfy the water quantity technical criteria in the Stormwater Management Act. The bill further allows, until the effective date of the next publication of the Handbook, any new permanent gravel access road associated with the construction and maintenance of electric transmission lines by an electric utility to be deemed to have satisfied the required water quantity technical criteria if certain requirements are met. This bill is identical to SB 1178.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Soil erosion control and stormwater management plans; Phase I Utility. Establishes that with regard to permanent gravel access roads associated with the construction and maintenance of electric transmission lines by a Phase I Utility, such utility is not required to obtain a General Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the discharge of stormwater from construction activities if certain conditions are met and also requires such utility to provide in its annual standards and specifications reasonable assurance that such conditions will be satisfied.