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_ 500 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 358. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 3. The recommendations on the organizational structure in the Code of Virginia and budget shall include streamlining the funding and sub-fund structure, updating terminology and structure to enhance transparency, ensuring consistency with the Commonwealth's commitments to and mandates for water quality, and coordinating Code and budget language. Recommendations shall be made for items appropriate to include in the Code of Virginia and items appropriate to include in the budget. 4. The review of the allocation of funding shall include mandatory deposits between sectors, discretionary deposits between sectors, the reserve fund and how to best leverage its usage to meet nutrient reduction goals, the use of interest including for administrative costs, and the Natural Resources Commitment Fund including technical assistance funding, the allotment of funding between the Chesapeake Bay and Southern Rivers watersheds, and the redistribution of unobligated funds between watersheds. 5. The workgroup shall include, but not be limited to, representatives from the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Department of Environmental Quality, the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, Virginia Cattlemen's Association, the Virginia Association of Municipal Wastewater Agencies, the Virginia Municipal Stormwater Association, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the James River Association, the Virginia Association of Counties, the Virginia Municipal League, and staff of the House Appropriations and Senate Appropriations and Finance Committees. 6. The workgroup's findings and recommendations shall be reported to the Chairs of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees, the Chairs of the House Agriculture, Chesapeake, and Natural Resources and the Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Natural Resources Committees, and the Chair of the State Water Commission no later than November 1, 2026. Total for Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources $1,359,627 $1,359,627 General Fund Positions 8.00 8.00 Position Level 8.00 8.00 Fund Sources: General $1,235,149 $1,235,149 Federal Trust $124,478 $124,478 § 1-105. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION (199) 359. Land and Resource Management (50300) $474,674,264 $552,720,664 $142,858,236 $144,176,170 Soil and Water Conservation (50301) $215,897,563 $242,443,963 $14,821,535 $16,139,469 Dam Inventory, Evaluation and Classification and Flood Plain Management (50314) $221,005,274 $272,505,274 $90,265,274 Natural Heritage Preservation and Management (50317) $6,781,336 $6,781,336 Financial Assistance to Soil and Water Conservation Districts (50320) $15,494,091 $15,494,091 Technical Assistance to Soil and Water Conservation Districts (50322) $6,796,000 $6,796,000 Agricultural Best Management Practices Cost Share Assistance (50323) $8,700,000 $8,700,000 Fund Sources: General $305,299,947 $383,346,347 $36,603,919 $37,103,919 Special $1,040,887 $1,040,887 Trust and Agency $63,000,000 $0 Dedicated Special Revenue $97,251,202 $97,251,202 $98,069,136 Federal Trust $8,082,228 $7,962,228 Authority: Title 10.1, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 21.1; Title 62.1, Chapter 3.1, Code of