Biosolids and industrial residuals in Virginia; JLARC to study. (HJ120)

Efforts to discuss this bill HJ120 with the bills proponent, Del Landes, have to date (2 Feb '16) have been unsuccessful. An unbiased study of the potential health risks associated with land application of both biosolids and industrial residuals is long overdue. Efforts to initiate a study in the 2015 GA failed due to lack of agreement between the House of Delegate’s version and the Senate’s version. The proposed JLARC study and literature review proposed by Delegate Landes’ bill appears to be a positive step. However, a one year study seems a bit short and two years would be more appropriate considering the subject’s complexity. We would really like discuss the bill with the proponent. We would like to know if it would be possible to have some citizen involvement in the JLARC effort, if the JLARC study effort will be transparent to the public. Further, we would like to be able to recommend studies for inclusion in their literature review process.

This bill states that the " the escape, flow, or discharge of sewage sludge into state waters in a manner that would cause pollution of state waters, as those terms are defined in § 62.1-44.3 of the Code of Virginia, will be prevented".
Question - who and how will establish that? How it will be determined that the pollution will be prevented?

Further, the bill reads:"the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) shall (i) analyze the current scientific literature regarding the long-term effects of biosolids and industrial residuals on health, including potential impacts on well, surface, and ground water".
It is a well known fact that the current scientific literature lacks the data evaluating the effects of biosolids on health and well and ground water. So the Commission will eventually reach this very conclusion - there is no scientific literature on that very subject. What is urgently needed is not an evaluation of current scientific literature, but an initiative and funds to CONDUCT new, comprehensive, long term study to evaluate the impact of biosolids and industrial residual land applications on public health! Yes, it will be expensive and very complex, that's why the current scientific literature has very little published data. The funding is scarce and available federal funding that exists - is directed towards studies that don't question the "beneficial use of biosolids".
A bill calling for a study to study the studies concluding that there are no studies!

While a growing body of scientific evidence shows that biosolids are a far more dangerous substance that it was considered when the Part 503 rule was formulated.
Here is a small sample of such recent scientific findings:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135410003477
http://sludgenews.org/resources/documents/Davis_Flame_Retardants_and_Triclosan.pdf
http://sludgenews.org/resources/documents/Walters,_McClellan,_Halden_PPCP_fate_in_soil.pdf
http://www.cropj.com/islam_6_8_2012_1228_1235.pdf
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203896t

In conlusion; there is a vast body of scientific findings on the potential detrimental effects of biosolids on human (and animal) health, but there is no clinical published data that documents that fact. That's what is needed, together with a reevaluation of current practices and regulations of monitoring the biosolids land application. A new federal and state legislation that involves tools and techniques available in modern science.