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This law was first created in 2005. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 705<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":145419,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56373,"identifier":"10.1-1187.1","token":"10.1\/II\/11.1\/1.1\/10.1-1187.1","url":"\/10.1-1187.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/10.1-1187.1\/","token":"10.1\/II\/11.1\/1.1\/10.1-1187.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 10.1-1187.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

“Board or Boards” means the State Air Pollution Control Board, the State Water Control Board, and the Virginia Waste Management Board.\n\t\t“Department<\/span>” means the Department<\/span> of Environmental Quality.\n\t\t“Director<\/span>” means the Director<\/span> of the Department<\/span> of Environmental Quality.\n\t\t“Environmental Management System<\/span>” means a comprehensive, cohesive set of documented policies and procedures adopted by a facility<\/span> or person and used to establish environmental goals, to meet and maintain those goals, to evaluate environmental performance and to achieve measurable or noticeable improvements in environmental performance, through planning, documented management and operational practices, operational changes, self assessments, and management review. The term shall include, but not be limited to, any such system developed in accordance with the International Standards of Operation 14001 standards.\n\t\t“E2″ means an environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“E3″ means an exemplary environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“E4″ means an extraordinary environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“Facility<\/span>” means a manufacturing, business, agricultural, or governmental site or installation involving one or more contiguous buildings or structures under common ownership or management.\n\t\t“Record of sustained compliance<\/span>” means that the person or facility<\/span> (i) has no judgment<\/span> or conviction<\/span> entered against it, or against any key personnel of the person or facility<\/span> or any person with an ownership interest in the facility<\/span> for a criminal violation of environmental protection laws<\/span> of the United States, the Commonwealth, or any other state in the previous five years; (ii) has been neither the cause of, nor liable for, more than two significant environmental violations in the previous three years; (iii) has no unresolved notices of violations or potential violations of environmental requirements with the Department<\/span> or one of the Boards; (iv) is in compliance with the terms of any order<\/span> or decree<\/span>, executive compliance agreement, or related enforcement measure issued by the Department<\/span>, one of the Boards, or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and (v) has not demonstrated in any other way an unwillingness or inability to comply with environmental protection requirements.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 10.1-1187.1)\n\n“Board or Boards” means the State Air Pollution Control Board, the\nState Water Control Board, and the Virginia Waste Management Board.\n\t\t“Department” means the Department of Environmental Quality.\n\t\t“Director” means the Director of the Department of Environmental\nQuality.\n\t\t“Environmental Management System” means a comprehensive, cohesive\nset of documented policies and procedures adopted by a facility or person and\nused to establish environmental goals, to meet and maintain those goals, to\nevaluate environmental performance and to achieve measurable or noticeable\nimprovements in environmental performance, through planning, documented\nmanagement and operational practices, operational changes, self assessments, and\nmanagement review. The term shall include, but not be limited to, any such\nsystem developed in accordance with the International Standards of Operation\n14001 standards.\n\t\t“E2″ means an environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“E3″ means an exemplary environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“E4″ means an extraordinary environmental enterprise.\n\t\t“Facility” means a manufacturing, business, agricultural, or\ngovernmental site or installation involving one or more contiguous buildings or\nstructures under common ownership or management.\n\t\t“Record of sustained compliance” means that the person or facility\n(i) has no judgment or conviction entered against it, or against any key\npersonnel of the person or facility or any person with an ownership interest in\nthe facility for a criminal violation of environmental protection laws of the\nUnited States, the Commonwealth, or any other state in the previous five years;\n(ii) has been neither the cause of, nor liable for, more than two significant\nenvironmental violations in the previous three years; (iii) has no unresolved\nnotices of violations or potential violations of environmental requirements with\nthe Department or one of the Boards; (iv) is in compliance with the terms of any\norder or decree, executive compliance agreement, or related enforcement measure\nissued by the Department, one of the Boards, or the U.S. Environmental\nProtection Agency; and (v) has not demonstrated in any other way an\nunwillingness or inability to comply with environmental protection requirements.\n\nHISTORY: 2005, c. 705.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}