Nutrient credits; generation near where used, report.

Nutrient credits; generation near where used;report. Provides that any nutrient credit used to comply withcertain stormwater runoff water quality criteria shall be generatedin the same eight-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC), as defined bythe U.S. Geological Survey, as the site of the land-disturbing activity.Current law allows such a credit to be generated in a HUC adjacentto the one in which the land-disturbing activity is located. Thebill also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to reportto the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Agriculture, Conservationand Natural Resources Committee on the nutrient credit trading program.