In this Issue:

- Virginia’s Draft State Water Resources Plan

- Frequent Questions: Form R Part II

- Manufacturers and Temporary Workers

- Farms and the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA)

- Change Management for the Industrial Wastewater Discharger

- Excerpt from Virginia’s Draft State Water Resources Plan:

The severe drought in Virginia in 2002 saw several localities nearly exhaust available public water supplies and reenergized public policy concerns about Virginia’s water resources and their proper and sustainable management. This led the General Assembly to mandate the development of local and state water supply plans to ensure better planning and coordination of use of available surface water and groundwater supplies. It further charged Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) to oversee this process and prepare an overall state water supply plan (“SWRP”). Local and regional plans were due in 2011, and DEQ has been working since then to compile the information from the forty-eight local and regional plans it received and develop a draft SWRP. DEQ has just recently issued a draft SWRP for public comment.