Virginia HB 1491: Marine Resources Commission; conveyance of easement and rights-of-way across Rappahannock River.

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18104135D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1491 

Offered January 18, 2018 

A BILL to authorize the Virginia Marine Resources 
Commission to convey a permanent easement and rights-of-way across 
the Rappahannock River, including a portion of the Baylor Survey, 
to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Energy Virginia) 
for the purpose of installing, constructing, maintaining, repairing, 
and operating an underground electric transmission line, and to repeal 
Chapter 377 of the Acts of Assembly of 2015. 

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Patron-- Ransone 

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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. � 1. The 
 Virginia Marine Resources Commission is hereby authorized to grant and convey 
 to Virginia Electric and Power Company, its successors and assigns, upon such 
 terms and conditions as the Commission, with the approval of the Governor and 
 the Attorney General, shall deem proper, a permanent easement and right-of-way 
 of 200 feet of width, and a temporary right-of-way of a reasonable width, as 
 needed for the purpose of installing, constructing, maintaining, repairing, and 
 operating an underground electric transmission line across the Rappahannock 
 River, including a portion of the Baylor Survey, the center line of such 
 easement being described as follows:

Beginning at a point 
 on the mean low water mark on the south side of Rappahannock River and east of 
 the Robert O. Norris Bridge, State Route 3, said point also being on the 
 southerly line of the Commonwealth of Virginia and being N 14�48'58" W, a 
 distance of 13.51' from the northwesterly property corner of a parcel of land 
 owned by David B. Wallace and Heidi M. Ott as recorded in Deed Book 282, page 
 699 in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Middlesex 
 County, Virginia, said point having a coordinate value of North 3,753,495.48, 
 East 12,081,488.92 based on the Virginia State Plane Coordinate System, South 
 Zone, NAD 1983 (2011), thence 
 continuing in the waters of the Rappahannock River, N 40�00'45" E, a 
 distance of 316.22' to a point having a coordinate value of North 3,753.737.68, 
 East 12,081,692.23, thence N 36�59'28" E, a distance of 9,889.26' ending 
 at a point on the mean low water mark on the north side of the Rappahannock 
 River and east of the Robert O. Norris Bridge, State Route 3, said point also 
 being on the northerly line of the Commonwealth of Virginia and being S 
 77�21'59" E, a distance of 53.10' from the southwesterly property corner 
 of a parcel of land owned by Highbank Association Incorporated as recorded in 
 instrument number LR20080000163 in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of 
 Lancaster County, Virginia, and also being on the northerly