                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-1187.1)

&#8220;Board or Boards&#8221; means the State Air Pollution Control Board, the
State Water Control Board, and the Virginia Waste Management Board.
		&#8220;Department&#8221; means the Department of Environmental Quality.
		&#8220;Director&#8221; means the Director of the Department of Environmental
Quality.
		&#8220;Environmental Management System&#8221; means a comprehensive, cohesive
set of documented policies and procedures adopted by a facility 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.
		&#8220;E2&#8243; means an environmental enterprise.
		&#8220;E3&#8243; means an exemplary environmental enterprise.
		&#8220;E4&#8243; means an extraordinary environmental enterprise.
		&#8220;Facility&#8221; means a manufacturing, business, agricultural, or
governmental site or installation involving one or more contiguous buildings or
structures under common ownership or management.
		&#8220;Record of sustained compliance&#8221; means that the person or facility
(i) has no judgment or conviction entered against it, or against any key
personnel of the person or facility or any person with an ownership interest in
the facility for a criminal violation of environmental protection laws 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 or one of the Boards; (iv) is in compliance with the terms of any
order or decree, executive compliance agreement, or related enforcement measure
issued by the Department, 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.

HISTORY: 2005, c. 705.