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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I
HB 2129 Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment, Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program established.
Introduced by: Alfonso H. Lopez | 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 SB 1354.
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
- 02/16/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200270D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2129ER) pdf
- 03/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate 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)
- 02/16/21 Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/21 Senate: Committee substitute printed 21200270D-S1
- 02/16/21 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/22/21 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/21 Senate: Read third time
- 02/25/21 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/25/21 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 21200270D-S1
- 02/25/21 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2129S1
- 02/25/21 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 1-N)
- 02/25/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/25/21 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House 21200270D-S1 (63-Y 34-N)
- 02/25/21 House: VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 34-N)
- 03/09/21 House: Enrolled
- 03/09/21 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2129ER)
- 03/09/21 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/21 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/21 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
- 03/15/21 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/25/21 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 363 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/25/21 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0363)