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This law was first created in 2023. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 735<\/a> and 736<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":270185,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76044,"identifier":"62.1-44.119:2","token":"62.1\/3.8\/1\/62.1-44.119_2","url":"\/62.1-44.119_2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-44.119_2\/","token":"62.1\/3.8\/1\/62.1-44.119_2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Agricultural commitments; work group","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-44.119:2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry shall convene a stakeholder advisory group, hereinafter referred to as the Group, to review annual progress and make recommendations toward the implementation of the Commonwealth’s agricultural commitments in the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan. The Group shall develop (i) a process to assist any operator of 50 or more acres of Chesapeake Bay cropland in developing a nutrient management plan that meets the requirements of the goals to be achieved by the target date and (ii) a plan for the stream exclusion program in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Such plans and progress reports shall include the number of practices completed by river basin in the prior program year and practices needed to complete the agriculture sector nutrient load reductions, including sediment reductions by river basin, identification of priority regions, the number of operators affected within each region, initiatives to enhance progress, an accounting of funding received toward the agricultural commitments, shortfalls remaining, and the consequences of such funding shortfalls. Such progress reports shall also include specific percentages relating to nutrient management plan and stream exclusion adoption compared to the requirements of the Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAGRICULTURAL COMMITMENTS; WORK GROUP (\u00a7 62.1-44.119:2)\n\nThe Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and the Secretary of Agriculture\nand Forestry shall convene a stakeholder advisory group, hereinafter referred to\nas the Group, to review annual progress and make recommendations toward the\nimplementation of the Commonwealth’s agricultural commitments in the\nChesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.\nThe Group shall develop (i) a process to assist any operator of 50 or more acres\nof Chesapeake Bay cropland in developing a nutrient management plan that meets\nthe requirements of the goals to be achieved by the target date and (ii) a plan\nfor the stream exclusion program in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Such plans and\nprogress reports shall include the number of practices completed by river basin\nin the prior program year and practices needed to complete the agriculture\nsector nutrient load reductions, including sediment reductions by river basin,\nidentification of priority regions, the number of operators affected within each\nregion, initiatives to enhance progress, an accounting of funding received\ntoward the agricultural commitments, shortfalls remaining, and the consequences\nof such funding shortfalls. Such progress reports shall also include specific\npercentages relating to nutrient management plan and stream exclusion adoption\ncompared to the requirements of the Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan.\n\nHISTORY: 2023, cc. 735, 736.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}