                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RESILIENT VIRGINIA REVOLVING FUND (§ 10.1-603.29)

A. The Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund is established as a permanent and
perpetual fund. All sums appropriated to the Fund by the General Assembly, all
sums allocated to the Commonwealth for resilience purposes through the federal
government, all receipts by the Fund from loans made by it to local governments,
all income from the investment of moneys held in the Fund, and any other sums
designated for deposit to the Fund from any source public or private shall be
designated for deposit to the Fund. The Fund shall be administered and managed
by the Authority as prescribed in this article, subject to the right of the
Department, following consultation with the Authority, the Secretary of Natural
and Historic Resources, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth, to
direct the distribution of loans or grants from the Fund to particular local
governments and to establish the interest rates and repayment terms of such
loans as provided in this article. Additional weight shall be given to those
projects that are located in a locality designated as having a very low
community resilience rating under a standard adopted by the Department. A
portion of the Fund shall be reserved to hold money that is allocated only for
the hazard mitigation of buildings and that shall not be available for other
uses. In order to carry out the administration and management of the Fund, the
Authority is granted the power to employ officers, employees, agents, advisers,
and consultants, including, without limitation, attorneys, financial advisers,
engineers, and other technical advisers and public accountants and, the
provisions of any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, to determine their
duties and compensation without the approval of any other agency or
instrumentality. The Authority may disburse from the Fund its reasonable costs
and expenses incurred in the administration and management of the Fund and a
reasonable fee to be approved by the Department for its management services. The
Authority may provide a portion of that fee to the Department to cover the
Department&#8217;s costs and expenses in administering the Fund.

B. 1. The Department shall develop and provide an opportunity for a 30-day
public comment period prior to each new loan or grant offering to solicit
feedback on proposed revisions to the Resilient Virginia Revolving Fund Manual.
A record of each application for a grant or loan from the Fund and the action
taken thereon shall be available for public inspection at the office of the
Department and on a publicly accessible website.

   2. The Director shall convene an Advisory Review Committee (the Committee) to
   assist in the distribution of loans and grants from the Fund. The Committee
   shall review applications to the Fund and make recommendations on the
   disbursement of moneys from the Fund and any other appropriate issues to the
   Department, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, and the Chief
   Resilience Officer of the Commonwealth. The Committee shall include
   representatives from the Department of Emergency Management, the Department of
   Environmental Quality, the Department of Housing and Community Development, a
   nonprofit group engaged in resilience efforts, the agriculture industry, the
   manufacturing industry, and the business community, the Virginia Director of
   the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and others as the Director deems appropriate.
   Appointed members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.

HISTORY: 2022, cc. 739, 782; 2024, cc. 753, 816.