* § 3-0311. State agency environmental audits.\n 1. Each state agency as defined in subdivision five of this section\nshall annually audit the environmental problems created by its\noperations or the operations of contractors it has hired and over whom\nit has exercised or is required to exercise direct oversight, acting in\nfulfillment of their contracts. Such audit shall identify the extent to\nwhich these operations are in violation of this chapter, or regulations\nadopted thereunder. Each such state agency shall submit a report to the\ndepartment on or before April first of each year. The report shall:\n a. describe:\n (1) each identified violation, including the year each violation was\nfirst reported to the department;\n (2) the progress made in remedying any identified violations, and in\nremedying the violations identified in the previous year's audit and the\npast problems previously identified in the department's report dated\n"January 1990" titled "Past Practices Assessment Report";\n (3) disbursements to remedy individual violations or past problems\nmade during the previous year and disbursements recommended to be made\nor made during the current fiscal year; and\n (4) the steps being taken to assure future compliance with state laws\nand regulations, including any new policies developed to address\npatterns of violations identified by the audit.\n b. rank each violation and past problem based on the threat each poses\nto the public health or the environment, so that each is placed into one\nof the following classifications:\n (1) presents an imminent substantial threat to the public health or\nthe environment;\n (2) presents a potential substantial threat to the public health or\nthe environment;\n (3) presents a discernible but not substantial threat to the public\nhealth or the environment; or\n (4) no evidence of discernible threat to the public health or the\nenvironment.\n c. include a remedial plan for the correction of all existing\nidentified violations and uncorrected past environmental problems\npreviously identified in the "Past Practices Assessment Report". Such\nremedial plan shall specify:\n (1) the actions the agency intends to take to remedy each violation or\nproblem;\n (2) an estimate of the costs, if any, of bringing each violation or\nproblem into compliance, and a total cost estimate for remedying all\nviolations and uncorrected past problems; and\n (3) a projected time schedule for remedying each violation or problem.\n 2. In addition to the audit prepared pursuant to subdivision one of\nthis section, each state agency shall report to the department any\nviolation of this chapter, or regulations adopted thereunder, that\npresents an imminent substantial, potential substantial, or discernible\nthreat to the public health or the environment, which has been committed\non agency property by the agency's lessees or other persons and of which\nthe agency has become aware.\n 3. The department shall, before September first of each year, submit\nan annual report to the governor, the director of the budget, the\ntemporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the\nchairman of the senate environmental conservation committee, the\nchairman of the assembly environmental conservation committee, the\nchairman of the senate finance committee, the chairman of the assembly\nways and means committee, and the chairman of the assembly committee on\noversight, analysis and investigation.\n The report shall include:\n a. a summary of the major categories of violations or uncorrected past\nproblems previously identified in the "Past Practices Assessment Report"\ndated January, nineteen hundred ninety;\n b. a description of each violation or uncorrected past environmental\nproblem, including an indication of the year each violation was first\nreported to the department and an identification of the rank as\ndetermined by each agency, pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision one\nof
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