Prohibits DEQ from issuing a Virginia Water Protection Permit for a surface water withdrawal if more than five percent of the non-consumptive volume of such withdrawal will be returned to a different major river basin, as defined in the bill. The bill clarifies that such prohibition does not apply to any lawful withdrawal in existence on July 1, 2025.
Referred to ACNR
Reported from ACNR with substitute and re-referred to Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
Left in Finance and Appropriations
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