Section 22-38-7
Department is lead agency in developing state plan; authority to contract with other state agencies.
The department is the lead agency for the development of the state plan and for the regulation of all nonpoint source pollution as required by law. The department is authorized to contract with other state agencies, to include the committee, in the discharge of its regulatory responsibilities in the control of nonpoint source pollution.
(Acts 1988, No. 88-602, p. 939, §7.)