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Budget Amendments - SB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Bolling
Water Quality Monitoring

Item 385 #1s

Item 385 #1s

First Year - FY2003 Second Year - FY2004
Natural Resources
Environmental Quality, Department of FY2003 $764,343 FY2004 $783,280 GF
FY2003 3.00 FY2004 3.00 FTE

Language
Page 295, line 21, strike "$8,126,998" and insert "$8,891,341".
Page 295, line 21, strike "$8,126,998" and insert "$8,910,278".


Explanation
(This amendment provides $1.6 million and three positions for DEQ to carry out increased water quality monitoring as required by the Code of Virginia. State statute requires DEQ to increase its efforts by 5.0 percent each year, including ambient water quality monitoring, biological monitoring, Chesapeake Bay monitoring, fish tissue monitoring, and sediment monitoring.)