TITLE 9. ENVIRONMENT

STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD

Initial Agency Notice

Title of Regulation: 9VAC25-260. Water Quality Standards.

Statutory Authority: § 62.1-44.15 of the Code of Virginia.

Name of Petitioner: National Park Service.

Nature of Petitioner's Request: The petitioner has requested that the State Water Control Board amend the Water Quality Standards to designate Bull Run from the northern end of Manassas National Battlefield Park boundary, at the confluence of Little Bull Run, south to where it crosses Route 66 as a Tier III exceptional state water.

Agency's Plan for Disposition of Request: A 21-day public comment period is hereby announced in the Virginia Register of Regulations. Upon completion of the public comment period, the State Water Control Board will consider the petition at its fall meeting and decide whether to move forward with the rulemaking.

Public Comment Deadline: June 27, 2011.

Agency Contact: David C. Whitehurst, Department of Environmental Quality, 629 East Main Street, P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218, telephone (804) 698-4121, or email david.whitehurst@deq.virginia.gov.

VA.R. Doc. No. R11-42; Filed May 11, 2011, 4:26 p.m.