Virginia House Bill 696 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum:
Status: Introduced on January 12 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-02-03 - House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Reporting of water withdrawals. Authorizes the State Water Control Board to impose a civil penalty, not to exceed $1,000, upon any person who fails to register and report certain water withdrawal information. However prior, to determining whether a civil penalty should be assessed, the Board is required to give the permit holder 60 days to come into compliance with the reporting requirement. A violator also has the option of entering into a consent agreement with the Board and pay a civil charge that could be less than the $1,000 penalty. Any person who withdraws more than one million gallons in any single month for crop irrigation or who withdraws during any single month a daily average 10,000 gallons per day is required to be registered and report the amount of his withdrawals. The revenue generated from the civil penalties and charges will be deposited in a special fund that can be used solely to fund the Department of Environmental Quality's water supply planning responsibilities.

Surface & groundwaters; Water Control Board impose penalty when failure to report water withdrawal.

Del. Watkins Abbitt [I]

Del. David Bulova [D]

Del. Harvey Morgan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-03		House: Continued to 2011 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2010-01-12		House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2010-01-12		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10100199D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
62	1	44.38	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB696
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB696+hil