SJ 38

Abstract

Study; JCOTS; safety, quality of life, and economic consequences of weather and climate-related events on coastal areas in Virginia; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to study the safety, quality of life, and economic consequences of weather and climate-related events on coastal areas in Virginia. In conducting its study, JCOTS shall examine (i) the negative impacts of weather, and geological and climate-related events, including displacement, economic loss, and damage to health or infrastructure; (ii) the area or areas and the number of citizens affected by such impacts; (iii) the frequency or probability and the time dimensions, including near-term, medium-term, and long-term probabilities of such impacts; (iv) alternative actions available to remedy or mitigate such impacts and their expected cost; (v) the degree of certainty that each of these impacts and alternative actions may reliably be known; and (vi) the technical resources available, either in state or otherwise, to effect such alternative actions and improve our knowledge of their effectiveness and cost. This resolution is identical to HJ 47.

Study; JCOTS; safety, quality of life, and economic consequences of weather and climate-related events on coastal areas in Virginia; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) to study the safety, quality of life, and economic consequences of weather and climate-related events on coastal areas in Virginia. In conducting its study, JCOTS shall examine (i) the negative impacts of weather, and geological and climate-related events, including displacement, economic loss, and damage to health or infrastructure; (ii) the area or areas and the number of citizens affected by such impacts; (iii) the frequency or probability and the time dimensions, including near-term, medium-term, and long-term probabilities of such impacts; (iv) alternative actions available to remedy or mitigate such impacts and their expected cost; (v) the degree of certainty that each of these impacts and alternative actions may reliably be known; and (vi) the technical resources available, either in state or otherwise, to effect such alternative actions and improve our knowledge of their effectiveness and cost. The provisions of the resolution are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Study; JCOTS; safety, quality of life, andeconomic consequences of weather and climate-related events on coastalareas in Virginia; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Technologyand Science (JCOTS) to study the safety, quality of life, and economicconsequences of weather and climate-related events on coastal areasin Virginia. In conducting its study, JCOTS shall examine (i) thenegative impacts of weather, and geological and climate-related events,including displacement, economic loss, and damage to health or infrastructure;(ii) the area or areas and the number of citizens affected by suchimpacts; (iii) the frequency or probability and the time dimensions,including near-term, medium-term, and long-term probabilities ofsuch impacts; (iv) alternative actions available to remedy or mitigatesuch impacts and their expected cost; (v) the degree of certaintythat each of these impacts and alternative actions may reliably beknown; and (vi) the technical resources available, either in stateor otherwise, to effect such alternative actions and improve our knowledge of their effectiveness and cost.