Legislative Council flags missing agency reports, EPA deadline in House Agriculture review

Mike O'Grady, Legislative Council, reviewed the schedule of statutory reports due to the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry and flagged several missing or consolidated submissions while underscoring a near-term federal deadline. "They have consolidated all those reports ... into what is called the Clean Water Initiative report," O'Grady said, noting the report is a comprehensive but lengthy resource.

O'Grady told committee members the Clean Water Initiative report consolidates multiple water-quality statutory reporting requirements and contains summary graphs and financing and restoration data; he said a recent edition runs about 230 pages. He recommended committee members use the report as an overview while seeking more granular statutory data when needed.

The review highlighted items the committee has received, items posted to the committee website and several missing or late reports the committee should follow up on. Among the routinely expected submissions are the Petroleum Cleanup Fund report, updates from the Lake Champlain Citizens Advisory Committee, the Department of Forests and Parks (via DHCD) report on the Forestry and…