                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONSIDER WILDLIFE CORRIDORS (§ 10.1-1188.1)

The Department 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 (§ 29.1-578 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.

HISTORY: 2020, cc. 323, 672.