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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65745</law_id><section_number>62.1-44.118</section_number><catch_line>Status reports on progress; legislative oversight</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>10.1-2127</reference><reference>10.1-2128.1</reference><reference>10.1-2134</reference><reference>10.1-2134.1</reference><reference>62.1-44.117</reference><reference>62.1-44.15:29.2</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="62.1">Waters of the State, Ports and Harbors</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3.7">Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Waters Clean-Up and Oversight Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall submit the impaired waters clean-up plan as described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Development of an impaired waters clean-up plan; strategies; objectives" href="/62.1-44.117/">62.1-44.117</a> no later than January 1, 2007, to the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources, the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations. Thereafter, a progress report on the implementation of the plan shall be submitted annually to these committees of oversight. The report shall be due on November 1 of each year. Water quality reporting requirements in subsection D of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Nonpoint source pollution water quality assessment" href="/10.1-2127/">10.1-2127</a>, subsection C of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Virginia Natural Resources Commitment Fund established" href="/10.1-2128.1/">10.1-2128.1</a>, and &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Annual report by Directors of the Departments of Environmental Quality and Conservation and Recreation" href="/10.1-2134/">10.1-2134</a> shall be annually consolidated in the November 1 report. If there are questions as to the status of the clean-up effort, the chairman of any of these committees may convene his committee for the purpose of receiving <span class="dictionary">testimony</span>. The executive branch departments and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources may request a meeting of any of the committees to inform them as to the progress of the clean-up or to propose specific initiatives that may require legislative action.</p></section></text><history>2006, c. 204; 2007, c. 637; 2011, c. 245; 2016, c. 127; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 401.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
