It appearing to the General Assembly that ambiguities exist in the laws regulating the control and use of explosives, therefore, in the 1977 Session, it agreed to Senate Joint Resolution No. 145.

The Committee is indebted to Frank Linkous, Chief, Division of · Mines and Quarriers of the Department of Labor and Industry, Doug Stone of the Department of Conservation & Economic Development, Joe Fiedorek and Claude Reich of the Mining Safety & Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor, and R. Dean Boddorff, Safety Consultant of the Institute of Makers of Explosives. Assistance to the Committee was also given by The Department of Highways, represented by Frank Norris, Resident Engineer, and the Virginia Road Builders Association, represented by Mike Fawley.