A report from the Virginia Department of Health outlines a strategy for privatizing the evaluation and design for onsite wastewater systems and private wells. The report is in response to a 2016 bill that required the agency to develop such a plan. According to the executive summary, “VDH should not provide evaluation and design services when and where a sufficient number of licensed private sector professionals are available to perform evaluation and design services.” Instead, it says, the agency should focus on high-priority items. “VDH is unique among state and federal agencies in that it provides some of the same
