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REGULAR MEETINGS OF STATEWIDE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
May 22, 9:30 a.m.: The Virginia Marine Resources Commission meets at 2600 Washington Avenue in Newport News.
May 24, 9 a.m.: The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services meets at the Oliver Hill Building, 102 Governor Street in Richmond.
MEETINGS ABOUT TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS (or TMDLs, for impaired waters). (For more information about TMDLs in Virginia, click here for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality TMDL Web site.)
Continuing May 23-31: Public-comment meetings for Virginia’s Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) under the Chesapeake Bay Total Daily Maximum Load (TMDL). Virginia’s Phase II plan was submitted to the U.S. EPA on March 30, 2012. A formal public comment period on that document runs until May 31, 2012. DCR will hold a series of public meetings across the state to provide an update on the WIP and the next steps in the Bay TMDL process and to give stakeholders an opportunity to comment.
May 23, 2:00–4:00 p.m., Virginia Commonwealth University Trani Life Sciences Building, Room 151 (in Annex), 1000 West Cary Street in Richmond, on the Middle James Watershed;
May 23, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Virginia Tech Eastern Shore AREC, 33446 Research Drive in Painter, on the Eastern Shore Watershed.
(Previous meetings were held for the Lower James Watershed, May 9 in Chesapeake; and the Potomac Watershed, May 15 in Woodbridge.)
Other upcoming meetings are as follows:
Rappahannock and York Watersheds: May 30, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Union First Market Bankshares, 24010 Partnership Drive in Ruther Glen.
Upper James Watershed: May 30, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Alleghany Government Center, 9212 Winterberry Avenue in Covington.
Shenandoah Watershed: May 31, 9:30-11:30 a.m., James Madison University Festival Conference Center, Highlands Room, in Harrisonburg.
May 23, 6:30 p.m., at the Middlesex Family YMCA, 11487 General Puller Highway in Hartfield, on the TMDL implementation plan for bacteria impairments in the Upper Piankatank River and in nine tidal shellfish waters that flow into the Piankatank River and Milford Haven (Queens, Stutts, Morris, Billups, Edwards, Harper, Wilton, Healy and Cobbs), located in Gloucester, Mathews, and Middlesex counties.
May 24, 1:30 p.m., at the Thomas Jefferson Library, 7415 Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church, on aquatic life (benthic) impairments in Holmes Run and Tripps Runin Falls Church (first meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee for this TMDL). The first public meeting on this TMDL is May 31, 6:30 p.m. at the Woodrow Wilson Library, 6101 Knollwood Drive in Falls Church.
May 24, 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., at the public library, 7461 Sherwood Crossing Place in Mechanicsville, on the TMDL study and start of development of an implementation plan for bacteria impairments in the Chickahominy River and tributaries in Richmond City and the counties of Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, and New Kent.
May 24, 6 p.m., at the town hall at 405 West Main Street in Lebanon, on the TMDL study and start of development of an implementation plan for bacterial impairments in the Clinch River and tributaries (Maiden Spring Creek and Little River in Tazewell County, and Indian Creek, Weaver Creek, Swords Creek, Lewis Creek, and Big Cedar Creek in Russell County).
MEETINGS ON OTHER SPECIFIC TOPICS (listed alphabetically)
Mined Land Reclamation
May 30, 1 p.m.: The Orphaned Land Advisory Committee meets at the Baugh Room of the Hilton Garden Inn at the Richmond Airport. This committee assists the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy’s (DMME) Division of Mineral Mining in prioritizing sites to be reclaimed via funding from the Orphaned Land Fund. In 1978, Virginia pass legislation establishing a non-coal orphaned land reclamation program intended to reclaim lands affected by mining for some 50 metals and other minerals during Virginia’s history. Funds for the program come from interest on money in a state-managed, industry self-bonding program. More information on the Orphaned Land Program is available online at http://www.dmme.virginia.gov/dmm/orphaned%20land.shtml.
Solid Waste Management
May 31, 10 a.m.: The Department of Environmental Quality holds a public meeting on a proposed statewide variance for beneficial use of lightly contaminated soil, debris, and sediment (the public comment period on the proposed variance is May 17-Jun. 18, 2012). The meeting location is the DEQ regional office at 4949-A Cox Road in Glen Allen.
Wastewater Permits
May 24, 10:00 a.m.: The Advisory Committee on the general discharge permit for concrete products facilities meets at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality regional office at 4949-A Cox Road in Glen Allen. The committee is assisting in considering possible amendments to this regulation (section 9 VAC 25-193 in the Virginia Administrative Code).
