HB1283:

Nutrient credits; generation near where used, report.

Bill Summary:

Nutrient credits; generation near where used;
report. Provides that any nutrient credit used to comply with
certain stormwater runoff water quality criteria shall be generated
in the same eight-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC), as defined by
the U.S. Geological Survey, as the site of the land-disturbing activity.
Current law allows such a credit to be generated in a HUC adjacent
to the one in which the land-disturbing activity is located. The
bill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to report
to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake
and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Conservation
and Natural Resources Committee on the nutrient credit trading program.