                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COOPERATIVE POINT SOURCE POLLUTION PROGRAM (§ 10.1-2121)

In order to restore, protect and improve the quality of the bays, lakes, rivers,
streams, creeks, and other state waters, and to achieve the pollution reduction
goals, including those related to nutrient reduction, established in commitments
made by the Commonwealth to water quality restoration, protection and
improvement, including but not limited to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, as
amended, the Department shall assist local governments and individuals in the
control of point source pollution, including nutrient reductions, through
technical and financial assistance made available through grants provided from
the Fund. In providing this technical and financial assistance the Department
shall give initial priority to local government capital construction projects
designed to achieve nutrient reduction goals, as provided in § 10.1-2131,
consistent with those established in the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, as amended,
and thereafter to efforts consistent with other commitments made by the
Commonwealth. In pursuing implementation of this cooperative program, it is the
intent of the Commonwealth to annually seek and provide funding necessary to
meet its commitments under any fully executed grant agreement pursuant to the
provisions of §§ 10.1-2130 and 10.1-2131.

HISTORY: 1997, cc. 21, 625, 626.