Coastal resilience policy; consultation from research university collaborative.

Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources;coastal resilience policy; research university collaborative.Requires the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and all relevantagencies, when setting coastal resilience policies, issuing permits,and evaluating grant proposals to seek input and consultation fromthe Commonwealth's research university collaborative. Current lawpermits the Secretary to seek input and consultation from such collaborativewhen setting coastal resilience policies. The bill removes the VirginiaCoastal Policy Center from such collaborative and provides that suchcollaborative may include any other institution in the Commonwealth conducting coastal resilience research. The bill also requires theSecretary to utilize such collaborative's expertise, research, and data analysis for the implementation of water management techniquesand coastal resilience strategies. Under current law, such requirementsby the Secretary are permissive.