Virginia Notice of Intent (NOI) (2026)
Who prepares the Notice of Intent for a Virginia construction site?
Virginia accepts a SWPPP prepared by the operator — no professional licence is required to write it. The clause we verified for Virginia is about who may prepare the SWPPP. It is not a rule about who fills in the Notice of Intent, and we have not scanned Virginia's filing route, its forms or its waiting periods — so this page will not tell you those, and no page on this site pretends to.
What Virginia's permit says about who may prepare the plan
SWPPPs shall be prepared in accordance with good engineering practices.
Our reading of VAR10 (9VAC25-880-70 Part II A 2 / B 2 a); 9VAC25-875-550 B; 9VAC25-875-400 A 3:Virginia requires only that SWPPPs be prepared in accordance with good engineering practices; its certification classes apply to agency reviewers and inspectors, not to preparers.
What the NOI is for
The Notice of Intent is how an operator asks to be covered by a construction general permit. It is a filing, not a plan: it identifies the site, the operator and the receiving water, and it is where the endangered-species eligibility criterion is selected and supported (Part 7.2.9).
The plan and the filing are linked by the permit's recordkeeping clause. Part 7.2.11 requires the SWPPP to hold a copy of the submitted NOI, any correspondence about coverage, the authorisation or acknowledgment letter and the NPDES tracking number.
The order that matters
File the Notice of Intent before construction starts, and wait for authorisation if the permit requires a waiting period. The SWPPP normally has to exist before the NOI goes in, because the NOI asks questions only the plan can answer.
How Virginia differs from the federal baseline
States with no NPDES authorisation of their own run on the EPA 2022 Construction General Permit, whose "qualified person" definition is a knowledge and skill threshold that the operator's own staff can meet — it names no licence. Virginia writes its own version of that same qualified-person threshold into its permit. It is a knowledge threshold, not a credential, so the operator can meet it.
Federal baseline: EPA 2022 CGP (no state NPDES authorisation), Appendix A definitions.
What SwpppDraft does for this document
- Collect, in one place, the facts a Notice of Intent asks for, so they can be copied into the state's own form or portal without re-deriving them
- Print the operator, site, acreage, receiving-water and schedule answers you already gave the questionnaire
- Leave the endangered-species and historic-properties determinations to you, with the clause that requires them (Part 7.2.9)
What it does not do
- File anything on your behalf — submitting an NOI needs a state agency account and a signature from your signatory, which is an agency service, not a document generator
- Tell you this state's submission deadline, fee or portal address; that was never scanned and we will not guess it
Virginia NOI questions
- Who prepares the Notice of Intent for a Virginia construction site?
- Virginia accepts a SWPPP prepared by the operator — no professional licence is required to write it. The clause we verified for Virginia is about who may prepare the SWPPP. It is not a rule about who fills in the Notice of Intent, and we have not scanned Virginia's filing route, its forms or its waiting periods — so this page will not tell you those, and no page on this site pretends to.
- Can SwpppDraft submit the NOI for me?
- No. Submitting for you would make this a filing agent rather than a document tool, and it needs an account and a signature that are yours. The filing pack gives you the answers in one place; the submission is yours to make.
- Do I need the SWPPP before the NOI?
- Usually yes — the NOI asks for facts that come out of the plan, and Part 7.2.11 then requires the submitted NOI to be kept inside the plan. Write the plan, file the notice, put a copy of the notice back in the plan.
- What has to be settled before the notice can go in?
- The endangered-species eligibility criterion, which is selected and supported in the NOI itself or on the Appendix D worksheet, with the documentation held inside the plan (Part 7.2.9). Some criteria mean consulting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service, so it is the item to start early rather than the one to leave until the end.
- What do I keep once coverage starts?
- Inside the plan: a copy of the submitted notice and any correspondence about coverage, the authorisation or acknowledgment letter, the NPDES tracking number, and a copy of the permit itself — an electronic copy the stormwater team can reach is acceptable (Part 7.2.11c).
- How does the NOI relate to the SWPPP?
- They are two halves of one act of getting covered. The notice asks to be covered and is filed; the plan says how the site will be run and is kept where it can be produced (Part 7.3). The permit ties them together by requiring the filed notice to be held inside the plan (Part 7.2.11).
Build a SWPPP for a site in Virginia
The questionnaire and the generator run in your browser and produce a watermarked draft. Checkout is not open, so nothing can be charged.
The rest of the paperwork in Virginia
- Virginia SWPPP requirements — who may prepare the plan, and the clause that decides it
- Virginia SWPPP (the plan itself)
- Virginia Notice of Termination (NOT)
- Virginia inspection log and inspection requirements
- Virginia BMP selection and site map
Related questions
- Do I need a SWPPP?
- What is a Notice of Intent (NOI)?
- What is a Notice of Termination (NOT)?
- What does my SWPPP need to say about endangered species?
Source and verification
VAR10 (9VAC25-880-70 Part II A 2 / B 2 a); 9VAC25-875-550 B; 9VAC25-875-400 A 3. Read the source document. State-law information on this page was verified on 2026-08-03; the federal clauses come from the EPA 2022 Construction General Permit (as modified), read 2026-08-04. County and city rules are not covered, and neither this state's filing route nor its deadlines were scanned.
What we are, and what stays your responsibility
- SwpppDraft is a document generation tool. It does not provide engineering services, legal services, or compliance consulting, and no engineer or attorney reviews what it produces.
- Everything in the document is built from the site facts you enter. Checking that those facts are right, and that the resulting plan fits your project, is yours to do.
- We do not file anything on your behalf, we do not certify or endorse your compliance, and we accept no liability for what happens when you use the document.
- State-level requirements carry the date we verified them. County and city rules are not covered — some local jurisdictions require a licensed preparer even where the state does not, and you have to check that yourself.
- When the product opens, our total liability will be capped at the amount you paid us. Today that amount is zero, because nothing is for sale.