The 1989 Session of the General Assembly passed Senate Joint Resolution 198, which established a joint subcommittee to study (i) the need for combined sewer overflow (CSO) controls in Virginia's cities, (ii) the financial impact of the CSO control plans on these localities, and (iii) the appropriateness of providing state grant funds to those localities to assist them in implementing CSO controls. During its initial two years, the joint subcommittee has identified the nature and scope of the problem and documented the financial impact on the cities of correcting the problem. The work of the subcommittee is reported in Senate Documents 40 (1990) and 30 (1991). In 1991, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 168 (Appendix A-1), the joint subcommittee devoted much of its effort to (i) a review of the status of the CSO correction plans adopted by the cities of Lynchburg, Richmond and Alexandria, (ii) monitoring CSO-related federal legislation, and (iii) developing legislative proposals in anticipation of federal mandates.