HB 1192 Virginia House of Delegates · 2021 Regular Session

Hazardous Substance Aboveground Storage Tank Fund; created.

Summary
Aboveground storage tanks; Hazardous Substance Aboveground Storage Tank Fund; civil and criminal penalties. Directs the State Water Control Board to regulate aboveground storage tanks that measure more than 1,320 gallons in capacity and are used to contain hazardous substances other than oil. The bill directs the Board to adopt regulations that establish requirements for registration, certification, and inspection, and other requirements of tank owners, and that establish a schedule of fees. The bill authorizes the Board to undertake corrective action, or to require the owner to undertake corrective action, in the event of a discharge of a hazardous substance. The bill requires tank owners to register their tanks, pay certain registration fees, develop release response plans, upgrade certain older tanks, install containment infrastructure for certain aboveground storage tanks, notify certain parties in the event of a release of a regulated substance, and demonstrate their financial responsibility. The bill also creates the Hazardous Substance Aboveground Storage Tank Fund for the administration of the bill and provides for civil and criminal penalties for violations of requirements of the bill, with the moneys received to be deposited into the existing Virginia Environmental Emergency Response Fund.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2020 Last action Dec 4, 2020
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Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Reported by committee
Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021
Feb 6, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
Jan 22, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Jan 22, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Jan 15, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Assigned ACNR sub: Chesapeake
Jan 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Referred to committee
Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Jan 7, 2020
House of Delegates · Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20105199D
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Alfonso Lopez
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