10.1-1402.01 - Further duties of Board; localities particularly affected. - Virginia Statutes

§ 10.1-1402.01. Further duties of Board; localities particularly affected.

After June 30, 1994, before promulgating any regulation under considerationor granting any variance to an existing regulation, or issuing any treatment,storage, or disposal permit, except for an emergency permit, if the Boardfinds that there are localities particularly affected by the regulation,variance or permit, the Board shall:

1. Publish, or require the applicant to publish, a notice in a local paper ofgeneral circulation in the localities affected at least thirty days prior tothe close of any public comment period. Such notice shall contain astatement of the estimated local impact of the proposed action, which at aminimum shall include information on the location and type of waste treated,stored or disposed.

2. Mail the notice to the chief elected official and chief administrativeofficer and planning district commission for those localities.

Written comments shall be accepted by the Board for at least fifteen daysafter any hearing on the regulation, variance, or permit, unless the Boardvotes to shorten the period.

For the purposes of this section, the term "locality particularly affected" means any locality which bears any identified disproportionate materialenvironmental impact which would not be experienced by other localities. Forthe purposes of this section, the transportation of waste shall notconstitute a material environmental impact.

(1993, c. 944.)