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Bill Text: VA SB990 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced | LegiScan
Bill Text: VA SB990 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Stormwater; State Water Control Board to adopt regulations.
Status: (Introduced) 2018-11-30 - Left in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources [SB990 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2019-SB990-Introduced.html
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SENATE BILL NO. 990 Offered January 24, 2018 A BILL to amend and reenact §§62.1-44.15:24, as it is currently effective, and 62.1-44.15:28, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to stormwater regulations. ---------- Patron-- DeSteph ---------- Unanimous consent to introduce ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources ----------
1. That §§62.1-44.15:24, as it is currently effective, and 62.1-44.15:28, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§62.1-44.15:24. (For expiration date, see Acts 2016, cc. 68 and 758, as amended by Acts 2017, c. 345) Definitions.
"Land disturbance" or "land-disturbing activity" means a man-made change to the land surface that potentially changes its runoff characteristics including clearing, grading, or excavation, except that the term shall not include those exemptions specified in §62.1-44.15:34.
1. Owned or operated by a federal, state, city, town, county, district, association, or other public body, created by or pursuant to state law, having jurisdiction or delegated authority for erosion and sediment control and stormwater management, or a designated and approved management agency under §208 of the CWA that discharges to surface waters;
"Virginia Stormwater Management Program authority" or "VSMP authority" means an authority approved by the Board after September 13, 2011, to operate a Virginia Stormwater Management Program or the Department. An authority may include a locality; state entity, including the Department; federal entity; or, for linear projects subject to annual standards and specifications in accordance with subsection B of §62.1-44.15:31, electric, natural gas, and telephone utility companies, interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline companies, railroad companies, or authorities created pursuant to §15.2-5102.
§62.1-44.15:28. (For expiration date, see Acts 2016, cc. 68 and 758, as amended by Acts 2017, c. 345) Development of regulations.
2. Establish minimum design criteria for measures to control nonpoint source pollution and localized flooding, and incorporate the stormwater management regulations adopted pursuant to the Erosion and Sediment Control Law (§62.1-44.15:51 et seq.), as they relate to the prevention of stream channel erosion. These criteria shall be periodically modified as required in order to reflect current engineering methods;
5. Establish by regulations a statewide permit fee schedule to cover all costs associated with the implementation of a VSMP related to land-disturbing activities of one acre or greater. Such fee attributes include the costs associated with plan review, VSMP registration statement review, permit issuance, state-coverage verification, inspections, reporting, and compliance activities associated with the land-disturbing activities as well as program oversight costs. The fee schedule shall also include a provision for a reduced fee for land-disturbing activities between 2,500 square feet and up to one acre in Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (§62.1-44.15:67 et seq.) localities. The fee schedule shall be governed by the following:
6. Establish statewide standards for stormwater management from land-disturbing activities of one acre or greater, except as specified otherwise within this article, and allow for the consolidation in the permit of a comprehensive approach to addressing stormwater management and erosion and sediment control, consistent with the provisions of the Erosion and Sediment Control Law (§62.1-44.15:51 et seq.) and this article. However, such standards shall also apply to land-disturbing activity exceeding an area of 2,500 square feet in all areas of the jurisdictions designated as subject to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Designation and Management Regulations;
10. Require that VSMPs maintain after-development runoff rate of flow and characteristics that replicate, as nearly as practicable, the existing predevelopment runoff characteristics and site hydrology, or improve upon the contributing share of the existing predevelopment runoff characteristics and site hydrology if stream channel erosion or localized flooding is an existing predevelopment condition. Except where more stringent requirements are necessary to address total maximum daily load requirements or to protect exceptional state waters, any land-disturbing activity that provides for stormwater management shall satisfy the conditions of this subsection if the practices are designed to (i) detain the water quality volume and to release it over 48 hours; (ii) detain and release over a 24-hour period the expected rainfall resulting from the one year, 24-hour storm; and (iii) reduce the allowable peak flow rate resulting from the 1.5-year, two-year, and 10-year, 24-hour storms to a level that is less than or equal to the peak flow rate from the site assuming it was in a good forested condition, achieved through multiplication of the forested peak flow rate by a reduction factor that is equal to the runoff volume from the site when it was in a good forested condition divided by the runoff volume from the site in its proposed condition, and shall be exempt from any flow rate capacity and velocity requirements for natural or man-made channels as defined in any regulations promulgated pursuant to this section or any ordinances adopted pursuant to §62.1-44.15:27 or 62.1-44.15:33;
14. Establish a statewide permit fee schedule for stormwater management related to municipal separate storm sewer system permits;
16. Require that all final plan elements, specifications, or calculations whose preparation requires a license under Chapter 4 (§54.1-400 et seq.) or 22 (§54.1-2200 et seq.) of Title 54.1 be appropriately signed and sealed by a professional who is licensed to engage in practice in the Commonwealth. Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize any person to engage in practice outside his area of professional competence.; and
17. Provide any definitions, equations, or protocols necessary to implement the runoff reduction method or other appropriate methodology as determined by the Board to demonstrate compliance with the water quality technical criteria for any land-disturbing activity that requires stormwater management. The Board shall develop guidance to establish (i) a compliance tool for projects that are subject to the runoff reduction method or other appropriate methodology and (ii) the best management practice design specifications that are necessary to effectively implement the water quality technical criteria. These specifications shall be periodically modified as required in order to reflect current scientific practices.
§62.1-44.15:28. (For effective date, see Acts 2016, cc. 68 and 758, as amended by Acts 2017, c. 345) Development of regulations.
2. Establish minimum standards of effectiveness of the VESMP and criteria and procedures for reviewing and evaluating its effectiveness. The minimum standards of program effectiveness established by the Board shall provide that (i) no soil erosion control and stormwater management plan shall be approved until it is reviewed by a plan reviewer certified pursuant to § 62.1-44.15:30, (ii) each inspection of a land-disturbing activity shall be conducted by an inspector certified pursuant to §62.1-44.15:30, and (iii) each VESMP shall contain a program administrator, a plan reviewer, and an inspector, each of whom is certified pursuant to §62.1-44.15:30 and all of whom may be the same person;
9. Establish a statewide fee schedule to cover all costs associated with the implementation of a VESMP related to land-disturbing activities where permit coverage is required, and for land-disturbing activities where the Board serves as a VESMP authority or VSMP authority. Such fee attributes include the costs associated with plan review, permit registration statement review, permit issuance, permit coverage verification, inspections, reporting, and compliance activities associated with the land-disturbing activities as well as program oversight costs. The fee schedule shall also include a provision for a reduced fee for a land-disturbing activity that disturbs 2,500 square feet or more but less than one acre in an area of a locality designated as a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area pursuant to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (§62.1-44.15:67 et seq.). The fee schedule shall be governed by the following:
16. Establish procedures to be followed when a locality chooses to change the type of program it administers pursuant to subsection D of §62.1-44.15:27;
17. Establish a statewide permit fee schedule for stormwater management related to MS4 permits;
19. Require that all final plan elements, specifications, or calculations whose preparation requires a license under Chapter 4 (§54.1-400 et seq.) or 22 (§54.1-2200 et seq.) of Title 54.1 be appropriately signed and sealed by a professional who is licensed to engage in practice in the Commonwealth. Nothing in this subdivision shall authorize any person to engage in practice outside his area of professional competence.; and
20. Provide any definitions, equations, or protocols necessary to implement the runoff reduction method or other appropriate methodology as determined by the Board to demonstrate compliance with the water quality technical criteria for any land-disturbing activity that requires stormwater management. The Board shall develop guidance to establish (i) a compliance tool for projects that are subject to the runoff reduction method or other appropriate methodology and (ii) the best management practice design specifications that are necessary to effectively implement the water quality technical criteria. These specifications shall be periodically modified as required in order to reflect current scientific practices.