Bills and Administrative Proposal to Invest OCS Revenues in Conservation Programs: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 25, S. 446, S. 532, S. 819, April 20, 1999, April 27, 1999, May 4, 1999, May 11, 1999, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 361 páginas |
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Página 318 - State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Página 187 - Our mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
Página 323 - Federal agency (1) to comply with criteria or standards of environmental quality, (2) to coordinate or consult with any other Federal or State agency, or (3). to act, or refrain from acting contingent upon the recommendations or certification of any other Federal or State agency. SEC. 105. The policies and goals set forth in this Act are supplementary to those set forth in existing authorizations of Federal agencies.
Página 103 - Defense, and bearing interest at rates determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration current market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities.
Página 111 - But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Página 96 - I would like to thank you, and members of the Committee for your interest in the needs and concerns of America's counties.
Página 283 - Senator Johnson. STATEMENT OF HON. TIM JOHNSON, US SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA Senator JOHNSON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to you and Senator Dorgan for holding this hearing.
Página 61 - Those That Fail to Remember History Are Bound To Repeat It" To date little has been done by the Congress or the Federal agencies to respond to the following reports by the General Accounting Office critical of land acquisition policies and practices carried out by those agencies. In large measure, the response by Congress has been to give the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management less money to buy land. That greatly reduced the problem. More money will...
Página 67 - ... private land as new government reservations. It will never stop. Just look at their current attempt to convert the 26 million-acre Northern Forests of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York into new Federal parks, refuges and other reservations of various kinds. Even the bill language of HR-701 appears to encourage this massive government sponsored population relocation plan. + Billions of dollars of private land will be taken off the tax rolls, forcing local taxes up. The taxes for those...
Página 341 - Chairman, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am writing to you on behalf of the...