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RICHMOND — State and local officials today will start trying to figure out how to refund $8.3 million in tax money collected by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA). "It's something I am not very clear on," said Sen. William C. Wampler Jr., Bristol Republican. "I think it is very complicated and sets up a whole other dynamic. Obviously, if the courts tell us it needs to be done, we need to find out a way to do it." The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday that the General Assembly did not have the power to give the NVTA, a 13-member...