9/12/2011 1:32 pm Date / Time filed with the Register of Regulations | VA.R. Document Number: R____-______ |
Virginia Register Publication Information
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Transmittal Sheet: Response to Petition for Rulemaking
Initial Agency Notice
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Agency Decision
Promulgating Board: | State Water Control Board |
Regulatory Coordinator: | Cindy Berndt (804)698-4378 cindy.berndt@deq.virginia.gov |
Agency Contact: | David C. Whitehurst (804)698-4121 david.whitehurst@deq.virginia.gov |
Contact Address: | Department of Environmental Quality 629 East Main Street, P.O.Box 1105 Richmond, VA 23218 |
Chapter Affected: | |
9 vac 25 - 260: | Water Quality Standards |
Statutory Authority: |
State: Sections 62.1-44.15(10) and 62.1-44.15(3a) of the Code of Virginia Federal: Clean Water Act (33 USC 1251 et seq.) 40 Code of Federal Regulations 131 |
Date Petition Received | 05/11/2011 |
Petitioner | National Park Service |
The petitioner has requested that the State Water Control Board amend the Water Quality
Standards to designate Bull Run from the northern end of Manassas National Battlefield
Park boundary, at the confluence of Little Bull Run, South to where it crosses Route
66 a Tier III Exceptional State Water.
Agency Plan
A 21-day public comment period is being announced in the Virginia Register of Regulations. Upon
completion of the publicl comment period, the State Water Control Board will consider
the petition at their fall meeting and decide whether or not to move forward with
the rulemaking.
Publication Date | 06/06/2011 (comment period will also begin on this date) |
Comment End Date | 06/27/2011 |
Initiate a regulatory change
Agency Response Date | 09/12/2011 |
The petition for rulemaking was granted by the State Water Control Board at its meeting
on August 4, 2011, based on the staff presentation and conclusion that the petitioned
segment of Bull Run met sufficient eligibility criteria, set forth in the State Water
Quality Standards regulation, for consideration as a Tier III Exceptional State Water.