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However, the locality or combination thereof may limit the amount of septage that the sewage treatment plant is designed to accept in order to eliminate or reduce a disproportionate engineering, design, or fiscal burden that may be placed on the sewage treatment plant or its users, to utilize cost-effective regional approaches, or to address engineering design considerations including protection of biological treatment processes.\n\t\tThe locality or combination thereof shall notify the Department of Environmental Quality of the septage treatment capability of the sewage treatment plant prior to the Department’s issuance of a state certificate to construct for such new, expanded, or upgraded facility. The locality or combination thereof shall provide a copy of such notification to the Board of Health to assist the Board of Health in its long-range planning pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-163.2.\n\t\tThis notification requirement shall not apply to any new project for which a preliminary engineering report has been submitted to the Department of Environmental Quality on or before December 31, 2008.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":230278,"text":"Whenever the governing body of a locality or a combination of governing bodies of two or more localities is using the authority of this chapter to construct a new sewage treatment plant, or a hydraulic expansion or major upgrade of an existing sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be designed and constructed so that it has the capability to treat the septage from all onsite sewage disposal systems, which are not adequately served by another approved disposal site, located in the area of the locality or combination thereof to be served by such plant. However, the locality or combination thereof may limit the amount of septage that the sewage treatment plant is designed to accept in order to eliminate or reduce a disproportionate engineering, design, or fiscal burden that may be placed on the sewage treatment plant or its users, to utilize cost-effective regional approaches, or to address engineering design considerations including protection of biological treatment processes.\n\t\tThe locality or combination thereof shall notify the Department of Environmental Quality of the septage treatment capability of the sewage treatment plant prior to the Department’s issuance of a state certificate to construct for such new, expanded, or upgraded facility. 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This law was first created in 1986. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 329 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. Unfortunately, the 1986 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1997, chapter 587<\/a>; in 2008, chapter 389<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":71587,"section_number":"32.1-163.2","catch_line":"Long range plan for onsite sewage","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-163.2\/"}],"permalink":{"id":154631,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63145,"identifier":"15.2-2123","token":"15.2\/II\/21\/3\/15.2-2123","url":"\/15.2-2123\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-2123\/","token":"15.2\/II\/21\/3\/15.2-2123","dublin_core":{"Title":"Sewage treatment plants to include certain capability","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-2123","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Whenever the governing body<\/span> of a locality<\/span> or a combination of governing bodies of two or more localities is using the authority of this chapter to construct a new sewage treatment plant, or a hydraulic expansion or major upgrade of an existing sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be designed and constructed so that it has the capability to treat the septage from all onsite sewage disposal systems, which are not adequately served by another approved disposal site, located in the area of the locality<\/span> or combination thereof to be served by such plant. However, the locality<\/span> or combination thereof may limit the amount of septage that the sewage treatment plant is designed to accept in order<\/span> to eliminate or reduce a disproportionate engineering, design, or fiscal burden that may be placed on the sewage treatment plant or its users, to utilize cost-effective regional approaches, or to address engineering design considerations including protection of biological treatment processes.\n\t\tThe locality<\/span> or combination thereof shall notify the Department of Environmental Quality of the septage treatment capability of the sewage treatment plant prior to the Department’s issuance of a state certificate to construct for such new, expanded, or upgraded facility. The locality<\/span> or combination thereof shall provide a copy of such notification to the Board of Health to assist the Board of Health in its long-range planning pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-163.2<\/a>.\n\t\tThis notification requirement shall not apply to any new project for which a preliminary engineering report has been submitted to the Department of Environmental Quality on or before December 31, 2008.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nSEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS TO INCLUDE CERTAIN CAPABILITY (\u00a7 15.2-2123)\n\nWhenever the governing body of a locality or a combination of governing bodies\nof two or more localities is using the authority of this chapter to construct a\nnew sewage treatment plant, or a hydraulic expansion or major upgrade of an\nexisting sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be designed and constructed\nso that it has the capability to treat the septage from all onsite sewage\ndisposal systems, which are not adequately served by another approved disposal\nsite, located in the area of the locality or combination thereof to be served by\nsuch plant. However, the locality or combination thereof may limit the amount of\nseptage that the sewage treatment plant is designed to accept in order to\neliminate or reduce a disproportionate engineering, design, or fiscal burden\nthat may be placed on the sewage treatment plant or its users, to utilize\ncost-effective regional approaches, or to address engineering design\nconsiderations including protection of biological treatment processes.\n\t\tThe locality or combination thereof shall notify the Department of\nEnvironmental Quality of the septage treatment capability of the sewage\ntreatment plant prior to the Department’s issuance of a state certificate\nto construct for such new, expanded, or upgraded facility. The locality or\ncombination thereof shall provide a copy of such notification to the Board of\nHealth to assist the Board of Health in its long-range planning pursuant to \u00a7\n32.1-163.2.\n\t\tThis notification requirement shall not apply to any new project for which a\npreliminary engineering report has been submitted to the Department of\nEnvironmental Quality on or before December 31, 2008.\n\nHISTORY: 1986, c. 329, \u00a7 15.1-317.1; 1997, c. 587; 2008, c. 389.","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}}