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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61451</law_id><section_number>10.1-1188.1</section_number><catch_line>Department of Transportation to consider wildlife corridors</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="10.1">Conservation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Activities Administered by Other Entities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11.1">Department of Environmental Quality</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Environmental Impact Reports of State Agencies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Transportation (VDOT) shall, as part of the environmental review it conducts for a road or highway construction project, include in an environmental impact statement a list of any existing terrestrial or aquatic wildlife corridor identified in the Wildlife Corridor Action Plan (the Plan) created pursuant to Article 8 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/29.1-578/">29.1-578</a> et seq.) of Chapter 5 of Title 29.1 that will be affected by such construction project. In the design options for any road or highway construction project that threatens wildlife connectivity in a corridor identified in the Plan, VDOT shall consider measures for the mitigation of harm caused by such road to terrestrial and aquatic wildlife.</p></section></text><history>2020, cc. 323, 672.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
