HD4 - The Future of Virginia's Environment, Interim Report


Executive Summary:
The HJR 221 study committee, also known as the Moss Commission on the Future of Virginia's Environment after its chairman and the patron of its enabling legislation, accomplished much in its first two years of existence, including traveling the Commonwealth to hear citizens' concerns, formulating and adopting the ideas that became the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Act of 1997 and the passage of strong park planning legislation, and providing tens of millions of dollars in funding for environmental and open space protection. The Moss Commission also sought testimony from local, state, national and international environmental and natural resource experts to assist in development of a vision and plan for the future of Virginia's environment. To continue these successful efforts, the 1998 Session of the General Assembly passed HJR 136, continuing the Moss Commission for an additional year. This document reports on the study committee's first two years of activities.