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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55863</law_id><section_number>10.1-1197.1</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-4002</reference></referred_to_by><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="4">Small Business Environmental Compliance Assistance Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Fund</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Small Business</span> Environmental Compliance Assistance <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Small business</span>&#x201D; means a business located in Virginia that (i) employs 100 or fewer people and (ii) is a <span class="dictionary">small business</span> concern as defined in the federal <span class="dictionary">Small Business</span> Act (15 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;631 et seq.) as amended.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Voluntary pollution prevention measures</span>&#x201D; means operational or equipment changes that meet the definition of pollution prevention contained in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/10.1-1425.10/">10.1-1425.10</a> and are not otherwise required by <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>1997, cc. 624, 850.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
