guidance

Compliance Resources:

• Compliance Handbooks
• Environmental Fact Sheets
• Hazardous Waste Forms and Documents
• What regulations apply to me?

Fact sheets created or updated after February 1, 2022: 

SQG Guidebook and Self-Evaluation Checklist (NEW)
VSQG Guidebook (NEW)

The Sites Management Section maintains a variety of guidance documents intended to assist property owners, prospective purchasers, environmental consultants, and other interested parties in the remediation of contaminated properties. Updated versions of these documents will be provided here as they become available.

• Guidance for determining whether a single family residence on its own lot is "substantially complete" for the purposes of section 1-403(a)(2) of the Rules 
• Guidance on reduction of isolation distances between wastewater disposal systems and potable water lines 

Guidance Documents and Procedures

• Property Ownership and Control Disputes. Guidance Document #2008-02
• Composting Toilet Guidelines 
• 2020 -2 Replacement Area Guidance Document

Replacement Supply Exemption

The Importance of Understanding your Regional Office Permit

The Air Quality & Climate Division (AQCD) requires that emissions from most regulated air pollution sources exhaust through an unobstructed, vertical stack of sufficient height to ensure appropriate upward dispersion of the exhaust, thus minimizing the ground level concentration of air pollutants where individuals may be exposed.