                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMITTEE DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS (§ 62.1-273)

A. The Committee shall be responsible for ensuring that the SWIFT Project,
including its effect on the Potomac Aquifer, is monitored independently.

B. The Committee shall periodically, but not less than every five years, obtain
an evaluation of the work of the Potomac Aquifer Recharge Monitoring Laboratory
by an independent panel of national experts convened under the auspices of the
National Water Research Institute or a similar organization. The evaluation
shall address (i) monitoring parameter selection procedures; (ii) analytical
methods and screening techniques; (iii) monitoring locations, frequency,
results, and interpretation; (iv) modeling activities; and (v) research
activities.

C. Additional related activities of the Committee may include:

   1. Ensuring that a monitoring program is developed and implemented for
   monitoring water quality, geological, aquifer pressure, land subsidence, and
   other SWIFT Project-related impacts;

   2. Ensuring independent review of data concerning the quality of the final
   water produced by the SWIFT Project and upstream process control testing
   conducted by HRSD in the course of operating the SWIFT Project;

   3. Ensuring that a continuous record of monitoring data is maintained and
   available;

   4. Ensuring that projections are made of the effects of the SWIFT Project;

   5. Ensuring that the Laboratory operations are separate, distinct, and
   independent from operations by HRSD;

   6. Ensuring that research or modeling on aquifer science, managed aquifer
   recharge, water reuse treatment, wastewater treatment, and advanced treatment
   technology is conducted and coordinated with the appropriate stakeholders;

   7. Ensuring that data on the status and performance of the SWIFT Project and
   on any changes in the condition of the aquifer due to the SWIFT Project are
   synthesized, reported, and submitted at least once a year to the relevant
   regulatory agencies and made available to localities, water authorities, the
   general public, and other stakeholders within the Eastern Virginia Groundwater
   Management Area;

   8. Serving as a liaison with stakeholders in the Eastern Virginia Groundwater
   Management Area;

   9. Ensuring that informational material related to the SWIFT Project is
   readily available to the public;

   10. Ensuring that the Laboratory is established to fulfill the above
   responsibilities;

   11. In the event that the Committee finds there to be, related to the SWIFT
   Project, an imminent danger to the environment, a public water supply, or
   public health, welfare, or safety, referring such matter to the State Water
   Control Board for the potential issuance of an emergency order to cease
   injection or make changes pursuant to subdivisions (8a) and (8b) of &#xA7;
   62.1-44.15 or to the Virginia Department of Health for the potential issuance
   of an emergency order to cease injection or make changes pursuant to &#xA7;
   32.1-13 or 32.1-175; and

   12. In the event that the Committee finds that SWIFT Project water does not
   meet HRSD standards for tasting events, directing HRSD to discontinue its use
   of SWIFT Project water in water tasting demonstrations or limited
   demonstration-scale promotional products.

D. The Committee may establish an advisory council to provide scientific and
technical expertise in fields including aquifer science, managed aquifer
recharge, wastewater treatment, advanced water treatment technology, water
reuse, geology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, and related fields. The Committee
may direct the advisory council to synthesize technical information for the
Committee, provide recommendations related to monitoring SWIFT Project impacts,
and provide other advice and support.

E. The authority granted to the Committee pursuant to this section shall not be
construed to prohibit or limit the Department, the State Water Control Board, or
the State Health Commissioner from taking any lawful action related to the SWIFT
Project.

HISTORY: 2019, cc. 54, 58.