Natural and Historic Resources
Department of Environmental Quality
State Water Control Board
Mandate 171
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Mandate Title:
Nutrient Credit Exchange Program - General Permit
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Purpose of legislation
Establishes a nutrient exchange (trading) and offset program that would allow point source discharges to achieve and maintain compliance with the load cap allocations for nitrogen and phosphorus delivered to the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries.
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| Legislation mandating a change | Chap 708 (2005) Chap 710 (2005) | ||
| VAC chapters to be amended |
9 vac 25 - 820 : General Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) Watershed Permit Regulation for Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus Discharges and Nutrient Trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Virginia
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| Deadline for the regulation to become effective | 1/1/2006 | ||
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