                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TOXIC SUBSTANCES REDUCTION IN STATE WATERS; REPORT REQUIRED (§ 62.1-44.17:3)

A. The Board shall (i) conduct ongoing assessments of the amounts of toxics in
Virginia&#8217;s waters and (ii) develop and implement a plan for the reduction
of toxics in Virginia&#8217;s waters.

B. The status of the Board&#8217;s efforts to reduce the level of toxic
substances in state waters shall be reported biennially, no later than January 1
in each odd-numbered year, to the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and
Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and
Natural Resources. The report shall include the following information:

   1. Compliance data on permits that have limits for toxics;

   2. The number of new permits or reissued permits that have toxic limits and
   the location of each permitted facility;

   3. The location and number of monitoring stations and the period of time that
   monitoring has occurred at each location;

   4. A summary of pollution prevention and pollution control activities for the
   reduction of toxics in state waters;

   5. The sampling results from the monitoring stations for the previous two
   years;

   6. The Board&#8217;s plan for continued reduction of the discharge of toxics,
   which shall include, but not be limited to, additional monitoring activities,
   a work plan for the pollution prevention program, and any pilot projects
   established for the use of innovative technologies to reduce the discharge of
   toxics;

   7. The identification of any segments for which the Board or the Director of
   the Department of Environmental Quality has made a decision to conduct
   additional evaluation or monitoring. Information regarding these segments
   shall include, at a minimum, the geographic location of the stream segment
   within a named county or city; and

   8. The identification of any segments that are designated as toxic impaired
   waters as defined in &#xA7; 62.1-44.19:4 and any plans to address the
   impairment.

HISTORY: 1997, c. 155; 2000, cc. 17, 1043; 2015, c. 173.