HB 1196

Abstract

Virginia Port Authority; Virginia WaterwayMaintenance Grant Program; grant funding; projects. Clarifiesthe circumstances under which the Virginia Port Authority may awardgrant funding from the Virginia Waterway Maintenance Grant Program for the construction and management of dredged material. The billprovides that such funding may be used for the lease, purchase, ordevelopment of upland containment areas where dredged material canbe selectively excavated and used beneficially for environmentalrestoration or for mitigation of coastal erosion. The bill also amendsan existing provision allowing funding for the mitigation of coastalerosion or flooding of dredged materials to require such dredgedmaterials be from an approved waterway dredging project conductedby the Commonwealth.