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and rural communities.
“I think they’re trying to get the message across that there’s going to be an end of land spreading sometime,” said Tamara Vance of the PEC staff.
“I hope having the law on the books, counties will begin to plan for the disposal of septage,” she said.
The bill is a compromise between the 1982 regulations, which prohibit land application of septic waste, and a bill approved by the legislature last year that forced the health department to draft regulations that would allow it.
Del. George P. Beard Jr. (R-Culpeper) introduced the bill, which allowed land application of septic waste in counties with fewer than 100 people per square mile, if the health department and Board of Supervisors agreed.
Those qualifications rendered the bill useless, according to Richard Hall-Sizemore, executive director of the Virginia Association of Counties, but Mrs. Vance said it forced the state to draft new regulations, a process still underway.
House Minority Leader Raymond R. “Andy”' Guest (R-Fauquier/Rappahannock/Warren/Clarke)
has introduced a bill this session which would modify Del. Beard’s legislation to subtract urban population before calculating whether a county is sparsely settled enough to allow land application of septage.
Del. Guest introduced the bill at Warren County’s request. It passed the House, but he said he’s waiting
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