Hopewell Manufacturer WQIF Language (language only)

Item 368 #3h

Language
Page 341, after line 27, insert:
"C.  In order to remain eligible for reimbursement grants from the General Assembly under § 10.1-1186.01, Code of Virginia, the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility shall enter into a contractual agreement with a manufacturer operating a facility located in the City of Hopewell, employing more than 600 employees at such facility, to reimburse the manufacturer in the amount of $5,000,000 for design and installation costs for systems that will reduce total nitrogen annual mass load from that manufacturer to 67 percent of the 2007 total nitrogen mass load discharged by that manufacturer into the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility.  Upon a certification by the Department of Environmental Quality that the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility has entered into such an agreement with a manufacturer as described in this paragraph, there shall be a grant made from the Water Quality Improvement Fund in the amount of $5,000,000 to the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility to finance the costs of reimbursement to the manufacturer.  The amount of the grant made to the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility under this paragraph shall be included in calculating the total amount granted to the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility from the Water Quality Improvement Fund for the costs of the design and installation of nutrient removal technology under § 10.1-1186.01 (E), Code of Virginia."

Explanation
(This amendment provides for the reimbursement of the costs of improving the nitrogen removal technology used by a manufacturer that represents 50 percent of the wastewater flowing into the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility. The nitrogen reductions in the manufacturer's discharge to the wastewater treatment facility should yield much quicker improvements in the water quality surrounding Hopewell than would be the case while design plans and construction of upgrades to the entire Hopewell wastewater treatment plant were implemented. This amendment should also reduce the scope and costs of the changes ultimately needed by the Hopewell Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility.)