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2015 SESSION

15102512D
SENATE BILL NO. 771
Offered January 14, 2015
Prefiled December 23, 2014
A BILL to amend and reenact § 10.1-1186.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Department of Environmental Quality; toxic waste site inventory.
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Patron-- McEachin
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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 10.1-1186.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 10.1-1186.1. Department to publish toxic release inventory and toxic waste site inventory.

A. The Department of Environmental Quality shall publish in March of each year the information reported by industries pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 11023 in its document known as the "Virginia Toxic Release Inventory." The report shall be (i) organized by chemical, facility, and facility location, and standard industrial classification code, and (ii) distributed to newspapers of general circulation and television and radio stations. The report shall include the information collected for the most recent calendar year for which data is available prior to the March publication date.

B. The Department shall conduct by July 1, 2016, a comprehensive inventory of nonfederally managed toxic waste sites in Virginia and shall publish at that time and in July of each succeeding year the information collected in a document to be known as the "Virginia Toxic Waste Site Inventory." The inventory shall include the information collected for the most recent calendar year for which data is available prior to the July publication date.