Bill Text: VA SB558 | 2016 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Dredging; TMDL credits, request for assignment of credits equivalent to street sweeping.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - Continued to 2017 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) [SB558 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2016-SB558-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 558 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled January 13, 2016 A BILL to request approval of dredging as a creditable practice, assignment of TMDL credits. ---------- Patron-- DeSteph ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. That the Chesapeake Bay Program is requested to approve as a creditable practice for pollutant removal the dredging from a direct stormwater outfall to the main channel of a stream in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, where such dredging and the disposal of dredged material are conducted in compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations, and to assign to such dredging total maximum daily load (TMDL) credits equivalent to those assigned to the removal of pollutants by street sweeping.