IX. Environmental Impact Reports
The Board is cognizant that the Department of Environmental Quality is
authorized pursuant to provisions of Title 10.1 of the Code of Virginia to
require all state agencies to submit an environmental impact report ("EIR")
for any state project which involves (i) the acquisition of any interest in
land for any state facility
construction or (ii) the
construction of any facility or the expansion of any facility if such
acquisition or construction costs $100,000 or more. Accordingly, it is the
policy of the University of Virginia that, in all cases in which an EIR is
required but has not been filed with DEQ during budget development, no land
acquisition shall take place and no construction on such land or previously
acquired land shall be commenced for any capital project until the
University has complied with the EIR requirements as set forth in the Code
of Virginia and the DEQ guidelines and has done so in a timely manner so as
not to adversely affect the project.
