RD412 - Annual Report on State Agency Farm Land and Forest Land Preservation Activities - December 1, 2015


Executive Summary:
Section 3.2-206 of the Code of Virginia requires that the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry submit a written report by December 1 of each year to the chairmen of the House Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources on the impacts of state agency actions on the conversion of farm and forest lands. This section requires that the following four agencies contribute to this report: (i) Department of Transportation, (ii) Department of Conservation and Recreation, (iii) State Corporation Commission, and (iv) Department of Environmental Quality.