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Chief Patron: Dunnavant
Richmond CSO Reporting (language only)

Item 366 #5s

Item 366 #5s

Natural Resources
Department of Environmental Quality

Language

Page 328, following line 38, insert:

"H.1. The State Water Control Board, in its renewal of the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) system of the City of Richmond, shall require the City to complete by January 1, 2020, an assessment of the discharges from each of its Combined Sewer Outfalls into the James River. The assessment shall incorporate all sewer system improvements, whether completed or ongoing at the time of the assessment, that are designed to address discharges from any part of the CSO system of the City.

2. The assessment shall also evaluate strategies and engineering analyses to determine the level, type, and cost of, and schedule for, any control technologies or other measures that may be required to meet applicable regulations.  To the extent necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, the Board shall, with the consent of the City, modify or amend an existing consent order or issue a new consent order. No provision of this item shall be construed as altering, modifying, or amending any term or condition contained in any existing permit.

3. Copies of the completed assessment shall be delivered to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, the Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee, and the Chairman of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee."



Explanation

(This amendment requires the State Water Control Board to include in the next renewal of the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the Combined Sewer Overflow system of the City of Richmond, a requirement that the City complete an assessment of the discharges from each of its Combined Sewer Outfalls into the James River to determine the costs of control technologies may be required to meet applicable regulations.)