(a) The Commissioner, on request of the Virgin Islands Planning Board or on his initiative, shall gather and supply information concerning water pollution in the United States Virgin Islands which is relevant to planning and zoning activities affecting the United States Virgin Islands.
(b) The Virgin Islands Planning Board shall bring to the attention of the Commissioner all proposed zoning actions pending before the Planning Board. The Commissioner shall review all such actions referred to him, and, based upon his consideration of the consequences of such actions on the waters of the United States Virgin Islands, shall make a report, including recommendations, to the Planning Board with respect to those pending actions which the Commissioner deems to have a significant relationship to water pollution in the United States Virgin Islands. The Planning Board shall take no proposed action inconsistent with a specific finding by the Commissioner that the same would result in pollution of the waters of the Virgin Islands. The Commissioner may promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this paragraph.