Authority: Title 30, Chapter 36, Code of Virginia.

Included in the amounts for this item is $38,000 the second year from the general fund representing Virginia's share of contributions to the six-state Chesapeake Bay Region efforts to hire an independent outside evaluator responsible for reviewing and submitting reports to Congress according to the schedule prescribed in the Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2014. Such funds shall not be released until such time as all six states in the Region have committed equal amounts of funding to the project. If such commitment has not been achieved by June 30, 2018, the amounts will revert to the general fund.