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1998 SESSION

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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to rescind and terminate the annual monitoring and reporting requirements initiated by Senate Joint Resolution No. 126 (1985) and continued by Senate Joint Resolution No. 278 (1993). [S 379] Approved

WHEREAS, the General Assembly passed Senate Joint Resolution No. 126 in 1985 requesting the Department of Health (DOH), in consultation with the State Corporation Commission (SCC), to monitor ongoing research on the health and safety effects of high voltage electric transmission lines and report annually its findings; and

WHEREAS, in 1993 the General Assembly, recognizing the continued public interest in this subject, passed Senate Joint Resolution No. 278 requesting the DOH and the SCC to continue their annual reporting and monitoring activities; and

WHEREAS, after 13 years of monitoring and reporting there no longer exists the need for such an ongoing project; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the monitoring and annual reporting requirements embodied in Senate Joint Resolution No. 126 (1985) and continued by Senate Joint Resolution No. 278 (1993) are no longer required and are terminated by the passage of this act.

2. That a report will be submitted by the Virginia Department of Health to the General Assembly that summarizes the results of the studies conducted by the National EMF Research and Public Information Dissemination Program created by the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and which are expected to be reported to Congress by the end of 1998.