All state agencies shall cooperate with the director in the director's efforts to ensure that persons conducting timbering operations are doing so in compliance with all applicable provisions of state law, and the director shall cooperate with such other state agencies to enforce their statutory and regulatory responsibilities and duties. Cooperation shall include the sharing of information necessary or helpful to the accomplishment of such responsibilities and duties. The director shall notify the chief of commencement of timbering operations. The chief and the director each shall submit an annual report on the progress and effectiveness of the programs incorporated in this article to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates and the President of the Senate.