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Bill Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment, Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program established. Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt by June 30, 2022, regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Program), consisting of a number of total nitrogen and total phosphorous waste load allocation reductions assigned to particular water treatment facilities with schedules for compliance. The bill provides that the ENRC Program shall operate in lieu of certain Chesapeake Bay waste load regulations. The bill directs the Board to modify affected discharge permits to incorporate the provisions of the ENRC Program and requires certain compliance plans due from treatment works by February 1, 2023, to address the requirements of the ENRC Program. The bill provides that the funding of certain design and installation costs for implementing nutrient upgrades pursuant to the ENRC Program shall be eligible for grants from the Water Quality Improvement Fund. The ENRC Program is required to proceed regardless of whether such grants will exceed the available funds in the Fund for a given fiscal year. The bill lists the projects and the total nitrogen or total phosphorus waste load allocation reductions that specified facilities are to complete. The bill provides that when grants to finance nutrient removal technology reach a sum sufficient to fund the completion of the ENRC Program at all publicly owned treatment works, certain General Assembly committees shall review funding needs and mechanisms. Finally, the bill directs the State Water Control Board to convene a stakeholder group during the adoption of regulations required to carry out the provisions of the bill and provides that such adoption by the Board shall be exempt from certain procedures of the Administrative Process Act. The bill provides that the priority projects and waste load allocation reductions that it sets forth shall be deemed to implement goals of the Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2021 SB 1354 Virginia SB 1354 (2021)
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Virginia SB 1354 (2021) — Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment, Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program established.

Chesapeake Bay; wastewater treatment; Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program. Requires the State Water Control Board to adopt by June 30, 2022, regulations establishing a Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan Enhanced Nutrient Removal Certainty Program (ENRC Program), consisting of a number of total nitrogen and total phosphorous waste load allocation reductions assigned to particular water treatment facilities with schedules for compliance. The bill provides that the ENRC Program shall operate in lieu of certain Chesapeake Bay waste load regulations. The bill directs the Board to modify affected discharge permits to incorporate the provisions of the ENRC Program and requires certain compliance plans due from treatment works by February 1, 2023, to address the requirements of the ENRC Program. The bill provides that the funding of certain design and installation costs for implementing nutrient upgrades pursuant to the ENRC Program shall be eligible for grants from the Water Quality Improvement Fund. The ENRC Program is required to proceed regardless of whether such grants will exceed the available funds in the Fund for a given fiscal year. The bill lists the projects and the total nitrogen or total phosphorus waste load allocation reductions that specified facilities are to complete. The bill provides that when grants to finance nutrient removal technology reach a sum sufficient to fund the completion of the ENRC Program at all publicly owned treatment works, certain General Assembly committees shall review funding needs and mechanisms. Finally, the bill directs the State Water Control Board to convene a stakeholder group during the adoption of regulations required to carry out the provisions of the bill and provides that such adoption by the Board shall be exempt from certain procedures of the Administrative Process Act. The bill provides that the priority projects and waste load allocation reductions that it sets forth shall be deemed to implement goals of the Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. CHAP0364 (committee substitute) — source
  2. Committee substitute printed 21103786D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Committee substitute printed 21200201D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
  4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101859D (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB1354ER (committee substitute) — source
  6. SB1354ES1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (65-Y 35-N) — 64–35 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 3-N) — 18–3 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
  • House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
  • Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 0–0 (fail) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
  • Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N) — 14–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
  • Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
  • Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
  • Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101859D introduction
  • 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2021-02-04 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-04 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-04 Committee substitute printed 21103786D-S1 substitution
  • 2021-02-04 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2021-02-04 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB1354S1)
  • 2021-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-05 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-05 Reading of substitute waived
  • 2021-02-05 Committee substitute agreed to 21103786D-S1
  • 2021-02-05 Reading of amendments waived
  • 2021-02-05 Committee amendments agreed to
  • 2021-02-05 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendments SB1354ES1
  • 2021-02-05 Printed as engrossed 21103786D-ES1
  • 2021-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-05 Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2021-02-07 Placed on Calendar
  • 2021-02-07 Read first time reading-1
  • 2021-02-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
  • 2021-02-08 Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  • 2021-02-10 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (18-Y 3-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-10 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2021-02-15 Impact statement from DPB (SB1354ES1)
  • 2021-02-15 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  • 2021-02-15 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 8-N) committee-passage
  • 2021-02-15 Committee substitute printed 21200201D-H1 substitution
  • 2021-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB1354H1)
  • 2021-02-17 Read second time reading-2
  • 2021-02-18 Read third time reading-3
  • 2021-02-18 Committee substitute agreed to 21200201D-H1
  • 2021-02-18 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1354H1
  • 2021-02-18 Passed House with substitute (65-Y 35-N) passage
  • 2021-02-18 VOTE: Passage (65-Y 35-N)
  • 2021-02-22 House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 2021-02-22 Title replaced 21200201D-H1
  • 2021-02-24 Enrolled
  • 2021-02-24 Signed by President
  • 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB1354ER)
  • 2021-02-25 Signed by Speaker
  • 2021-03-01 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
  • 2021-03-01 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
  • 2021-03-25 Approved by Governor-Chapter 364 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1d040ccb-283a-4744-ab78-3a1837bbc690. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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