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• a reorganized Department of Conservation and Historic Resources.
• establishment of a cabinet level position, the Secretary of Natural Resources, with "the sole responsibility to monitor and protect the natural balance.”
• the start of Virginia's efforts to halt the depredation of the Chesapeake Bay and clean up existing pollution.
Robb termed the bay campaign “a shining example" of the partnership which must be forged between federal, state, and local governments, industry, and citizens if natural resources are to be protected. Much has been done to stop point pollution of this "national treasure" but run-off from farms and subdivisions continues to fill the bay with nutrients which promote the algae growth that is choking aquatic plant and animal life, he said.
He called for improved farming practices in the bay's watershed to control this non-point pollution and noted that already, "best management practices" have saved 330,000 tons of "precious top soil for farmers" while "saving the bay in the process." And Robb expressed optimism that the new land use law passed by the General Assembly in its last session will ensure that local zoning decisions governing "where people work and live" in the watershed will now be made “with the bavin mind."
Looking back over the accomplishments of the Robb and Baliles administrations, he maintained it can now be said with assurance that "a kejtone disaster will never happen again in Virginia.”
But the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council who political pundits see as an eventual
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