HB18: Environmental Quality, Department of; consolidation of various boards, increase of authority.

HOUSE BILL NO. 18
Offered January 9, 2008
Prefiled November 27, 2007
A BILL to amend and reenact the seventh enactment of Chapters 838 and 841 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007, relating to the Department of Environmental Quality.
Patron-- Englin

Committee Referral Pending

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.