Pursuant to tentative recommendations of the Commission on State Governmental Management, House Joint Resolution 210 was passed by the General Assembly at the 1977 Session.

This Act required that a study and evaluation of the organization of the Commonwealth's conservation, recreation and historic preservation activities and the proposal to establish a Heritage Trust, and to include in the evaluation the impact of any such changes upon local counterpart agencies be made.

This Act further required that the Governor transmit the findings, conclusions and recommendations in a written report to the Commission on State Governmental Management and the General Assembly.

The responsibilities in this Act have been discharged. I have received the report prepared by the task force appointed to accomplish this.

I commend the report to you.

Sincerely

/s/ Mills E. Godwin, Jr.
Governor of Virginia