A. The Conservation Commission may establish and maintain an environmental and natural resources geographic data base system. Such system shall include but not be limited to pollution complaints filed with the state environmental agencies and state agencies with limited environmental responsibilities, resolutions of complaints and such other data as funds become available and as may be desirable and necessary to provide public access to specific site information.

B. Not more than once each month, each state environmental agency and state agency with limited environmental responsibilities shall submit to the Conservation Commission a report listing the environmental pollution complaints received during the previous month. The report shall include the name of the complainant, if known, the address of the complainant, the location involved in the complaint, the name of the person or company and address thereof alleged to be responsible for the pollution and how the complaint was resolved. The report shall be in such form and made in such manner as is required by the Commission. The report shall be in writing or may be submitted in electronic data or machine-readable form at the discretion of the Commission.

C. The Commission shall annually submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Governor containing the total number of pollution complaints filed, the total number of complaints and type of complaints addressed by each state environmental agency, the total number of such complaints resolved, the total number of complaints remaining to be resolved, the average time frame for resolving such complaints, and the historical comparison of complaint resolution in previous years, and any other information which the Commission believes is pertinent in regard to pollution complaints.

D. The Conservation Commission may recover costs incurred in duplicating any reports made pursuant to the provisions of this section.

E. The Department of Environmental Quality shall routinely provide the Conservation Commission with a list of permit approvals for inclusion in the Commission's data base.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 398, § 20, eff. July 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 213, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 82, § 1501-450 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1999, c. 413, § 17, eff. Nov. 1, 1999.