{"data":{"id":"us-va/9vac25-780-60","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"9VAC25-780-60","heading":"State role in regional water supply plan preparation","body":"To assist local governments in the development of regional water supply plans, the department will:\n\n1. Provide planning, policy, and technical assistance to each regional planning area differentiated according to each area's water supply challenges, existing resources, and other factors;\n\n2. Provide financial assistance from any planning funds and prioritize the allocation of planning funds and other available funds to local governments that sufficiently participate in regional planning;\n\n3. Provide guidance on compliance options;\n\n4. Facilitate acquisition of existing water resource conditions (the department shall prepare and post on its website a list of readily available sources for the items identified in 9VAC25-780-90 B);\n\n5. Facilitate acquisition of existing use information that has been reported to the department;\n\n6. Facilitate acquisition of water management information (the department shall prepare and post on its website a list of acceptable practices that are used with regard to the topics in 9VAC25-780-110);\n\n7. Identify acceptable methods for the projection of future water demands per 9VAC25-780-100;\n\n8. Provide any information regarding known beneficial use conflicts relating to the development of alternatives as identified in the most recent State Water Resources and Supply Plan;\n\n9. Convene kickoff meetings for the regional planning units;\n\n10. Follow up with localities that have been identified as not participating in the regional planning unit and the development of the regional water supply plan;\n\n11. Ensure that local governments coordinate sufficiently in the development of regional plans;\n\n12. Ensure that each regional plan clearly identifies the region's water supply risks and proposes strategies to address those risks;\n\n13. At the request of the applicant, convene a technical evaluation committee meeting; and\n\n14. Provide notice on the department website of local public informational meetings on the regional water supply plan upon notification by the locality.","path":["Title 9. Environment","Agency 25. State Water Control Board","Chapter 780. Local and Regional Water Supply Planning"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title9/agency25/chapter780/section60/","current_through":"2026 Regular Session (effective July 1, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:49:23Z","sha256":"dd13d72a2ed18b9d51735cdb4a3b45b6b9bad478f3d154452ef938f3a4abe39a","source_id":"us-va-vac","stale":false,"prev":"us-va/9vac25-780-55","next":"us-va/9vac25-780-70"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}