                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR; POWERS AND DUTIES OF DIRECTOR (§ 10.1-1185)

The Department shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Governor to serve
at his pleasure. The Director shall be an experienced administrator with
knowledge of environmental protection and government operation and shall have
demonstrated expertise in organizational management and environmental science,
environmental law, or environmental policy. The Director of the Department of
Environmental Quality shall, under the direction and control of the Governor,
exercise such power and perform such duties as are conferred or imposed upon him
by law and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the
Governor and the following Boards: the State Air Pollution Control Board, the
State Water Control Board, and the Virginia Waste Management Board. The Director
or his designee shall serve as executive officer of the aforementioned Boards.
		All powers and duties conferred or imposed upon the Executive Director of the
Department of Air Pollution Control, the Executive Director of the State Water
Control Board, the Administrator of the Council on the Environment, and the
Director of the Department of Waste Management are continued and conferred or
imposed upon the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality or his
designee. Wherever in this title and in the Code of Virginia reference is made
to the head of a division, department or agency hereinafter transferred to this
Department, it shall mean the Director of the Department of Environmental
Quality.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 887; 2008, cc. 276, 557.