Stormwater management; local plan review, acceptance of signed and sealed plan in lieu of review. (HB1308)
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Description
Stormwater; local plan review; acceptance of signed plan in lieu of review. Authorizes any rural Tidewater locality, whether or not it has opted out of administering a stormwater or erosion and sediment control program, to require that a licensed professional retained by the applicant submit a set of plans and supporting calculations for land-disturbing activities that disturb 2,500 square feet or more but less than one acre of land. The bill requires the plans to bear a certification and to be signed and sealed by the professional. The locality is authorized to accept such plans in satisfaction of the local plan review requirement. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to examine the possibility of expanding the use of the agreement in lieu of a stormwater management plan, currently authorized for use in the construction of certain single-family residences, to include any nonresidential development site of less than one acre in a rural Tidewater locality. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/10/2018 | Committee |
01/10/2018 | Presented and ordered printed 18104164D |
01/10/2018 | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources |
01/29/2018 | Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #3 |
01/30/2018 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (8-Y 0-N) |
01/31/2018 | Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/02/2018 | Read first time |
02/05/2018 | Read second time |
02/05/2018 | Committee amendment agreed to |
02/05/2018 | Engrossed by House as amended HB1308E |
02/05/2018 | Printed as engrossed 18104164D-E |
02/06/2018 | Read third time and passed House (96-Y 1-N) |
02/06/2018 | VOTE: PASSAGE (96-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
02/07/2018 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
02/07/2018 | Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources |
02/08/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1308E) |
02/15/2018 | Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/19/2018 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/20/2018 | Read third time |
02/20/2018 | Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/20/2018 | Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/22/2018 | Enrolled |
02/22/2018 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1308ER) |
02/22/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1308ER) |
02/22/2018 | Signed by Speaker |
02/23/2018 | Signed by President |
02/26/2018 | Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018 |
02/26/2018 | G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018 |
03/05/2018 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 155 (effective 7/1/18) |
03/05/2018 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0155) |
Comments
I am providing public comment for HB1308. It is clear that certain plans as proposed in the bill within the Tidewater region of Virginia have to been signed and sealed by a licensed professional and a certain certification statement is to be provided by such professional and such plans are to accepted by the local VESCP/VSMP authority. However, it is a bit unclear as to whether that means the local VESCP/VSMP authority still needs to review and approve such plans as a Virginia State Water Control Board/Virginia DEQ certified plan reviewer.
I am against the provisions of HB1308 if the intent is to forego proper review and approval by the local VESCP/VSMP authority. In addition the agreement-in-lieu of an erosion and sediment control and/or stormwater management plan was and should remain to be intended for simple single-family residential house plans not nonresidential (commercial) site plans. A nonresidential site plan between 2,500 square feet to 1 acre disturbed can be somewhat complex at times with regard to the site's building, grading, site entrance, erosion and sediment control, utility, parking and drainage/stormwater management plan arrangement and should not fall under provisions of agreement-in-lieu of criteria.
If the intent is waiver the need for local VESCP/VSMP authority review of the plans which fall within this criteria, then I am in opposition to HB1308.