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SENATE BILL NO. 227 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled January 6, 2016 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. ----------
Patrons-- McEachin, Ebbin, Edwards, Favola and Locke; Delegates: Bagby, Boysko, Carr, Heretick, Hester, Kory, Krizek, Lindsey, McQuinn, Murphy, Plum and Simon
---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources ----------

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 toxics 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 publish by July 1, 2017, a report of identified waste sites in the Commonwealth in a document known as the "Virginia Waste Site Inventory." The report shall consist of a listing of sites within the Commonwealth that the Department is aware of and that have (i) managed a solid waste, hazardous waste, hazardous substance, or other substance within the jurisdiction of the Waste Management Board or (ii) been required or volunteered to conduct a remedial action under an order or regulations of the Waste Management Board. The report shall contain, if known, the site location, type of waste management, time period of management, remedial action, corrective action, or closure, if any, taken at the site; impediments to remedial action, corrective action, or closure, if any; and any other information the Department determines is relevant for the report.

2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2016 by the General Assembly that becomes law.