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Letter to Delegates
Dear Delegate Shuler,
My name is Ryan Johnson and I am a senior Environmental Policy and Planning student at Virginia Tech. I am currently enrolled in a Senior Planning Seminar which is offered through the school of Urban Affairs and Planning and is under the direction of Dr. Diane Zahm. This class is designed to offer students a real world orientation to urban planning and in accordance to this prerogative the class traditionally adopts a real world planning issue as a case study. This year the class has adopted an issue concerning Chapter 85 of Virginia Administrative Code, which addresses coal combustion byproduct regulations. Specifically our class has chosen to focus on section 9VAC20-85-110 of this chapter, which exempts a landowner or operator of a site from the disposal requirements found in Chapter 85 for fossil fuel combustion wastes, granted that the waste is used as structural fill directly underneath some beneficial use project.
In order to effectively address section 9VAC20-85-110, my group has directed its focus to the state level of governance. We are currently in the process of creating mock lobbying packets as well as drafting mock revisions to the current state law. I must stress that we are not an official lobbying organization and that all work conducted within this class is meant solely for educational purposes within our classroom.
As a group, we realize that you are a very busy professional, but we were hoping you might be able to look at our latest proposal in order to offer insight on the changes we have proposed within the given documents. We are particularly interested in which points you feel would be deemed unfavorable under the current political climate at the state level, and for what reasons legislation to change the beneficial use loophole or coal combustion byproduct waste disposal methods may be opposed. I have included a revised version of SB717 as well as the memo we have created under our group name, Citizens for Beneficial Change. I thank you for your time and consideration on this matter and look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Ryan Johnson
My name is Ryan Johnson and I am a senior Environmental Policy and Planning student at Virginia Tech. I am currently enrolled in a Senior Planning Seminar which is offered through the school of Urban Affairs and Planning and is under the direction of Dr. Diane Zahm. This class is designed to offer students a real world orientation to urban planning and in accordance to this prerogative the class traditionally adopts a real world planning issue as a case study. This year the class has adopted an issue concerning Chapter 85 of Virginia Administrative Code, which addresses coal combustion byproduct regulations. Specifically our class has chosen to focus on section 9VAC20-85-110 of this chapter, which exempts a landowner or operator of a site from the disposal requirements found in Chapter 85 for fossil fuel combustion wastes, granted that the waste is used as structural fill directly underneath some beneficial use project.
In order to effectively address section 9VAC20-85-110, my group has directed its focus to the state level of governance. We are currently in the process of creating mock lobbying packets as well as drafting mock revisions to the current state law. I must stress that we are not an official lobbying organization and that all work conducted within this class is meant solely for educational purposes within our classroom.
As a group, we realize that you are a very busy professional, but we were hoping you might be able to look at our latest proposal in order to offer insight on the changes we have proposed within the given documents. We are particularly interested in which points you feel would be deemed unfavorable under the current political climate at the state level, and for what reasons legislation to change the beneficial use loophole or coal combustion byproduct waste disposal methods may be opposed. I have included a revised version of SB717 as well as the memo we have created under our group name, Citizens for Beneficial Change. I thank you for your time and consideration on this matter and look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Ryan Johnson
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