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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63458</law_id><section_number>10.1-636</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</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="I">Activities Administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Flood Protection and Dam Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Conservation, Small Watersheds Flood Control and Area Development Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Facility</span>&#x201D; means any structures, foundations, appurtenances, spillways, lands, easements and rights-of-way necessary to (i) store additional water for immediate or future use in feasible flood prevention sites; (ii) create the potential to store additional water by strengthening the foundations and appurtenances of structures in feasible flood prevention sites; or (iii) store water in sites not feasible for flood prevention programs, and to properly operate and maintain such stores of water or potential stores of water.
		&#x201C;Fund&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">revolving fund</span>&#x201D; means the Conservation, Small Watersheds Flood Control and Area Development Fund.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Storing additional water in feasible flood prevention sites</span>&#x201D; means storage of water for other than flood prevention purposes above the capacity of any given structure to hold water for the purpose of flood prevention in flood prevention sites within a flood prevention project having a favorable benefit-cost ratio where it is economically feasible to provide the capacity to store additional water or the potential for additional water storage capacity.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 591, &#xA7; 21-11.2; 1988, c. 891.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
