                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STATUS REPORTS ON PROGRESS; LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT (§ 62.1-44.118)

The Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources shall submit the impaired waters
clean-up plan as described in § 62.1-44.117 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
§ 10.1-2127, subsection C of § 10.1-2128.1, and § 10.1-2134 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 testimony. 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.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 204; 2007, c. 637; 2011, c. 245; 2016, c. 127; 2021, Sp. Sess.
I, c. 401.