Water Pollution
Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66 and Title 69, relative to wetlands. [SB-631]
As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland, or otherwise regulating real property as a wetland, unless the property is classified as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4; Title 66 and Title 69.
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1, relative to water quality. [HB-523]
As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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Maryland 2023 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Environmental Health Specialists - Revisions [HB-273]
Altering the education requirements for an applicant for licensure as an environmental health specialist; altering the grounds for which the Board may take disciplinary action against an applicant or a licensee to include misfeasance and malfeasance while performing the duties of an environmental health specialist; etc.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Department Of Health To Adopt Rules For A Permit To Discharge Pollutants That Include The Major Factors That Are Considered In Identifying The Functional Equivalent Of A Direct Discharge For Point Sources Or Nonpoint Sources. [SCR-3]
Requesting The Department Of Health To Adopt Rules For A Permit To Discharge Pollutants That Include The Major Factors That Are Considered In Identifying The Functional Equivalent Of A Direct Discharge For Point Sources Or Nonpoint Sources.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1, relative to water quality. [SB-407]
As enacted, makes revisions to the Water Quality Control Act. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1, relative to water quality. [SB-408]
As introduced, removes obsolete language requiring the commissioner of environment and conservation to deliver a written report on stream bank erosion in this state to each member of the general assembly by January 15, 2000. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 69-3-108, relative to underground injection activities. [SB-261]
As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-108.
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Department Of Health To Adopt Rules For A Permit To Discharge Pollutants That Include The Major Factors That Are Considered In Identifying The Functional Equivalent Of A Direct Discharge For Point Sources Or Nonpoint Sources. [HCR-3]
Requesting The Department Of Health To Adopt Rules For A Permit To Discharge Pollutants That Include The Major Factors That Are Considered In Identifying The Functional Equivalent Of A Direct Discharge For Point Sources Or Nonpoint Sources.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
South Central Wastewater Authority; watershed general permit for nutrients. [HB-1839]
South Central Wastewater Authority; watershed general permit for nutrients. Directs the South Central Wastewater Authority (SCWWA) to submit a phased construction program to the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) by August 1, 2023, which the Department shall approve by September 1, 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Such phased upgrade construction program for the SCWWA shall be completed as soon as possible on a schedule approved by the Department but no later than January 1, 2030. The bill requires the SCWWA to begin the
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 69-3-108, relative to underground injection activities. [HB-80]
As enacted, specifies that underground injection activities authorized by rule are not subject to the general five-year term limit for discharge permits under the Water Quality Control Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Section 69-3-108.
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69, relative to wetlands. [SB-91]
As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland where the property is classified as prior converted cropland that is exempt from classification as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69.
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
South Central Wastewater Authority; watershed general permit for nutrients. [SB-963]
South Central Wastewater Authority; watershed general permit for nutrients. Directs the South Central Wastewater Authority (SCWWA) to submit a phased construction program to the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) by August 1, 2023, which the Department shall approve by September 1, 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Such phased upgrade construction program for the SCWWA shall be completed as soon as possible on a schedule approved by the Department but no later than January 1, 2030. The bill requires the SCWWA to begin the
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Tennessee 113th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69, relative to wetlands. [HB-18]
As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from applying criteria that will result in the classification of real property as a wetland where the property is classified as prior converted cropland that is exempt from classification as a wetland under federal law. - Amends TCA Title 11, Chapter 14, Part 4 and Title 69.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
State Finance and Procurement - Chesapeake Bay Watershed States - Expenses and Contracts (Quit Polluting My Bay Act of 2022) [HB-1470]
Requiring the Standard State Travel Regulations adopted under certain provisions of law to prohibit the reimbursement for travel expenses related to travel to a certain state for which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified two or more pollution source sectors at a backstop actions level of oversight; and prohibiting a certain public body from awarding a certain procurement contract for goods or services to a certain business from a certain state under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Water Pollution - Oyster Repletion Supplemental Environmental Projects [HB-1201]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to include oyster repletion projects in a certain database; and requiring the Department to prioritize a supplemental environmental project involving certain oyster repletion projects for a party who is in violation of a certain effluent limitation or unpermitted discharge.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Water Pollution - Oyster Repletion Supplemental Environmental Projects [SB-876]
Requiring the Department of the Environment to include oyster repletion projects in a certain database; and requiring the Department to prioritize a supplemental environmental project involving certain oyster repletion projects for a party who is in violation of a certain effluent limitation or unpermitted discharge.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Natural Resources - Maryland Park Service and State Parks - Alterations (Great Maryland Outdoors Act) [HB-727]
Addressing infrastructure, capacity, and accessibility needs within the Maryland Park Service and State parks, including establishing systems and processes for surveying infrastructure and critical maintenance needs, increasing the number of Maryland Park Service full-time employees, requiring the Department of Budget and Management to conduct certain staff reviews, and requiring the Department of Natural Resources to develop a certain capital improvement plan and a comprehensive long-range strategic plan; etc.
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Tennessee 112th General Assembly
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 69, relative to discharges from floating cabins. [HB-2224]
As introduced, prohibits the department of environment and conservation from imposing requirements for discharges of greywater from floating cabins that are more stringent than the minimum requirements of federal law. - Amends TCA Title 69.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Environment - Discharge Permits - Inspections and Administrative Continuations [HB-649]
Establishing inspection and reporting requirements for certain permit holders; requiring the Department of the Environment maintain on its website a list of certain noncompliant permit holders and provide certain Senators and Delegates with a link to the list by monthly e-mail; establishing administrative penalties for certain permit holders determined to be in significant noncompliance of certain State or federal water quality standards, effluent limitations, or other requirements; etc.
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Maryland 2022 Regular Session
Conservation Finance Act [HB-653]
Providing that the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Maryland Environmental Trust must allow participants in certain cost-sharing programs to participate in and receive compensation from greenhouse gas markets, carbon credits, or soil carbon programs under certain circumstances; authorizing certain units to enter into pay-for-success contracts with certain aggregators to procure certain environmental outcomes projects or already certified environmental outcomes; etc.