Virginia Administrative Code
Title 9 - ENVIRONMENT
Agency 25 - STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD
Chapter 875 - VIRGINIA EROSION AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT REGULATION
Part III - Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Program
Article 2 - Land-Disturbing Activities
Section 9VAC25-875-240 - Criteria for determining status of land-disturbing activity

A. The program administrator shall determine the validity of a claim of exempt status by a property owner who disturbs 10,000 square feet or more or 2,500 square feet or more in all areas of jurisdictions designated as subject to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Designation and Management Regulations (9VAC25-830). As soon as a nonexempt status is determined, the requirements of the ESCL shall be immediately enforced.

B. Should a land-disturbing activity not begin during the 180-day period following approval of the erosion and sediment control plan or cease for more than 180 days, the VESCP authority may evaluate the existing approved erosion and sediment control plan to determine whether the plan still satisfies local and state erosion and sediment control criteria and to verify that all design factors are still valid. If the VESCP authority finds the previously filed plan to be inadequate, a modified plan shall be submitted and approved prior to the resumption of land-disturbing activity.

C. Shoreline erosion control projects are not subject to Part V (9VAC25-875-470 et seq.) of this chapter. However, land-disturbing activity immediately outside the limits of the shoreline erosion project is subject to the ESCL and Part V of this chapter.

D. Whenever land-disturbing activity involves activity at a separate location, including borrow and disposal areas, the VESCP authority may either: