62.1-44.17:3 - Toxics reduction in state waters; report required
§ 62.1-44.17:3. Toxics reduction in state waters; report required.
A. The Board shall (i) conduct ongoing assessments of the amounts of toxicsin Virginia's waters and (ii) develop and implement a plan for the reductionof toxics in Virginia's waters.
B. The status of the Board's efforts to reduce the level of toxic substancesin state waters shall be reported annually, no later than January 1, to theHouse Committees on Conservation and Natural Resources and Chesapeake and ItsTributaries, and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation andNatural Resources. The initial report shall be submitted no later thanJanuary 1, 1998, and shall include data from the previous five years on thetrends of the reduction and monitoring of toxics in state waters. The initialreport and each subsequent annual report shall include, but not be limitedto, 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 andthe location of each permitted facility;
3. The location and number of monitoring stations and the period of time thatmonitoring has occurred at each location;
4. A summary of pollution prevention and pollution control activities for thereduction of toxics in state waters;
5. The sampling results from the monitoring stations for the previous year;
6. The Board's plan for continued reduction of the discharge of toxics whichshall include, but not be limited to, additional monitoring activities, awork plan for the pollution prevention program, and any pilot projectsestablished for the use of innovative technologies to reduce the discharge oftoxics;
7. The identification of any segments for which the Board or the Director ofthe Department of Environmental Quality has made a decision to conductadditional evaluation or monitoring. Information regarding these segmentsshall include, at a minimum, the geographic location of the stream segmentwithin a named county or city; and
8. The identification of any segments that are designated as toxic impairedwaters as defined in § 62.1-44.19:4 and any plans to address the impairment.
(1997, c. 155; 2000, cc. 17, 1043.)