Sunday, July 20, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.
Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HB18: Environmental Quality, Department of; consolidation of various boards, increase of authority.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the seventh enactment of Chapter 838 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007 is amended and reenacted as follows:
7. Regulatory actions in process on the effective date of
this act shall transfer to the regulatory authority established in this act,
as of July 1, 2007,
without requiring the initiation of a new regulatory action. However, any
application for the issuance or amendment of a permit pending before
the State Air Pollution
Control Board, the State Water
Control Board, or the Virginia Waste
Management Board on
December 31, 2007, shall remain under the authority of the
respective board until the
earlier of: (i) the date final
action has been taken by the respective
board; or (ii)
June 30,
2010.
2. That the seventh enactment of Chapter 841 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007 is amended and reenacted as follows:
7. Regulatory actions in process on the effective date of
this act shall transfer to the regulatory authority established in this act,
as of July 1, 2007,
without requiring the initiation of a new regulatory action. However, any
application for the issuance or amendment of a permit pending before the State
Air Pollution Control Board, the State Water Control Board, or the Virginia
Waste Management Board on December 31, 2007, shall remain under the authority
of the respective board until the earlier of: (i) the date final action has been taken by the respective board; or (ii) June 30, 2010.
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Explanation
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