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By TERRY SCANLON
Capital News Service " • RICHMOND — Virginia's waterways are' falling prey to polluters — and the state's guardian of its environment is doing little to Stop them, according to a recent study conducted by the General Assembly's investigative arm, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. * Virginia lags far behind ks regional neighbors in on-site inspections of water polluters, and the report showed fines levied by the Department of Environmental Quality against violators have dropped from more than $300,000 in 1992 to $4,000 in 1996.
Tom Hopkins, director of the DEQ, said the report studied only a small percentage of the agency's work while failing to look at the
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