DEB DEBATE
780607 (PART 1 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER
S 3033
124 CONG REC 16603 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 16603)
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Mr. ROBERT C BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar Order No. 809.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be stated by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
A bill (S. 3033) to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture
to provide cooperative forestry assistance to States and others, and for
other purposes.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill which had been reported
from the Committee on Agriculture Nutrition, and Forestry, with an
amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following, ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
SBR SENATE BILL REPORTED
780607 (PART 2 OF 10)
S 3033 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 16603 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 16603 TO 16606)
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DEB DEBATE
780607 (PART 3 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER CURTIS, SENATOR
S 3033, HR 11777
124 CONG REC 16606 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 16606 TO 16607)
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(Purpose: To correct technical and clerical errors in the text of
the bill)
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President I send to the desk technical
amendments and I ask unanimous consent that they be considered en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the amendments will be
considered en bloc.
The amendment will be stated.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
The Senator from West Virginia (Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD) proposes
unprinted amendment No. 1325.
The amendment is as follows,
On page 32, line 12, strike out "reworked" and insert in lieu thereof
"revoked".
On page 32, line 13, strike out "regulation" and insert in lieu
thereof "regulations".
On page 34, line 3, strike out "agreement" and insert in lieu thereof
"agreements".
On page 34, strike out "is au-" in line 4 and "thorized to" in line
5, and insert in lieu thereof "may".
On page 34, line 7, strike out "Agricultural" and insert in lieu
thereof "Agriculture".
On page 35, line 3, strike out "supplied" and insert in lieu thereof
"supplies".
On page 38, line 12, strike out "makes" and insert in lieu thereof
"make".
On page 42, line 24, insert "will" immediately before "not be limited
to".
On page 45, line 3, strike out "implement" and insert in lieu thereof
"conduct".
On page 46, line 22, strike out "by" and insert in lieu thereof
"under".
On page 47, strike out "(or" in line 4 and "less)" in line 5, and
insert in lieu thereof "or less".
On page 48, line 17, strike out "and "State" "shall" and insert in
lieu thereof "and "State" shall".
On page 50, line 14, strike out "program" and insert in lieu thereof
"Program".
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the technical
amendments en bloc.
The amendment was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now is on agreeing to the
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended,
was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The ++EP++ question is on the engrossment and
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The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read
the third time.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar Order No. 843, which is
a companion House bill.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be stated by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
A bill (H.R. 11777) to authorize and direct the Secretary of
Agriculture to provide cooperative forestry assistance to States and
others, and for other purposes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senate will proceed
immediately to the consideration of the bill.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all
after the enacting clause of H.R. 11777 be stricken and that the
language of the Senate bill, as amended, be substituted in lieu thereof.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The question is on the engrossment of the amendment and the third
reading of the bill.
The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a
third time.
The bill was read the third time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the
question is, Shall it pass?
The bill (H.R. 11777) was passed.
The title was amended so as to read,
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide
cooperative forestry assistance to States and others, and for other
purposes.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was passed.
Mr. CURTIS. I move to lay that motion on the table.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to
indefinitely postpone Calendar Order No. 809, S. 3033.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have
printed in the RECORD an excerpt from the report (No. 95-879),
explaining the purposes of the measure.
There being no objection, the excerpt was ordered to be printed in
the RECORD, as follows,
S. 3033 consolidates in one statute and clarifies the authorities for
several existing cooperative forestry assistance programs now contained
in seven separate statutes, which are administered by the Secretary of
Agriculture. These existing authorities would be repealed.
The major provisions of S. 3033 would (1) establish congressional
policy regarding the desirability of a cooperative Federal and State
effort to maintain and improve non-Federal forest lands, (2) Separate
the existing cooperative forestry technical assistance programs of the
Department of Agriculture between rural and urban areas, and strengthen
the role of the State foresters in implementing these programs, (3)
continue the forestry incentives costshare program, and strengthen the
role of State foresters in implementing this program, (4) Increase the
acreage limitation in the forestry incentives cost-share program from
500 to 1,000 acres (and to 5,000 acres if significant public benefits
will accrue from the cost sharing), (5) eliminate the $25 million annual
appropriation limit on the forestry incentives program, (6) continue the
forestry insect and disease control program, and expand it to include
protection of wood products, stored wood, and wood in use, (7) continue
the cooperation in forest fire control and rural community fire
protection programs and direct that these programs be coordinated with
the programs of the Department of Commerce under the Federal Fire
Prevention and Control Act of 1974, (8) establish a rural life disaster
fund that would be available to the Secretary to assist States in
dealing with rural fire emergencies, (9) establish programs of
management assistance, planning assistance, and technology
implementation for State foresters, (10) permit States, upon development
of a State forestry plan, to consolidate individual Federal cooperative
forestry program grant (except for forestry incentive cost share
payments and payments from any special Treasury fund (into a single
annual grant -- to be matched by the State. The use of consolidated
payments could not, of itself, reduce the total amount of financial
assistance that would otherwise be available to a State under existing
procedures, (11) provide that the cooperative forestry programs are to
be administered to complement the related activities of the Forest
Service and other agencies of the Department of Agriculture, (12)
require the Secretary to consult with a committee composed of not less
than five State foresters or equivalent State officials, selected by the
State foresters and equivalent State officials, in making determinations
regarding (a) requirements for the development of State forest resources
programs and State participation in management and and planning
assistance and technology implementation, (b) apportionment of program
funds among States, (c) administrative expenses in connection with
programs under the bill, and (d) amounts to be expended to assist
non-State cooperators under the bill, (13) expand the scope of the
annual report to Congress required under the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to include a report on the
status of the cooperative forestry programs under the bill, (14) provide
general authorizations for appropriations for the cooperative forestry
programs under the bill and make cooperative forestry programs funds
available until expended; and (15) Repeal (a) sections 1 through 4 of
the Act of June 7, 1924, known as the Clark-McNary Act. (b) the Act of
April 26, 1940, known as the White Pine Blister Rust Protection Act, (c)
the Forest Pest Control Act, (d) the Cooperative Forest Management Act,
(e) section 401 of the Agriculture Act of 1956, (f) title IV of the
Rural Development Act of 1972, and (g) section 1009 and the proviso to
section 1010 of the Agricultural Act of 1970, as added by the
Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
780607 (PART 4 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER
S 3034
124 CONG REC 16607 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGE
16607)
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Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar Order No. 810.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be stated by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
A bill (S. 3034) to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture
to carry out forest and rangeland renewable resources research, to
provide cooperative assistance for such research to States and others,
and for other purposes.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill which had been reported
from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry with an
amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert the
following. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
SBR SENATE BILL REPORTED
780607 (PART 5 OF 10)
S 3034 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 16607 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS (PAGES
16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGES
16607 TO 16608)
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DEB DEBATE
780607 (PART 6 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER
S 3034, HR 11778
124 CONG REC 16608 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 1660 TO 16613)
COMPILATION ON OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGES
16608 TO 16609)
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(Purpose: To correct technical and clerical errors in the text of
the bill)
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I send to the desk certain
technical amendments and ask unanimous consent that they be considered
en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without ++EP++ objection, the amendments will
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The amendment will be stated.
The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to read the amendment.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that
further reading of the amendment be dispensed with.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is ordered.
The amendment is as follows,
On page 13, line 24, strike out "Resources" and insert in lieu
thereof "Resource".
On page 16, line 5, insert "as" immediately after "such conditions".
On page 16, line 8, strike out "extended" and insert in lieu thereof
"expended".
On page 16, line 15, strike out the comma immediately after "233" and
insert in lieu thereof a semicolon.
On page 16, line 20, strike out "Secretaray" and insert in lieu
thereof "Secretary".
On page 17, line 4, strike out "of" and insert in lieu thereof "by".
On page 18, line 8, insert a comma immediately after "this Act".
On page 18, line 9, strike out "shall" and insert in lieu thereof
"shall--"
On page 20, line 5, strike out "581a-1."
On page 19, line 23, strike out "Money" and insert in lieu thereof
"Funds".
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment
of the Senator from West Virginia.
The amendment was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now is on agreeing to the
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended,
was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read
the third time.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of calendar order No. 844.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be stated by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
A bill (H.R. 11778) to authorize and direct the Secretary of
Agriculture to carry out forest and rangeland renewable resources
research, to provide cooperative assistance for such research to States
and others, and for other purposes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, the Senate will proceed immediately to consideration of the
bill.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all
after the enacting clause be stricken and that the language of the
Senate bill, as amended, be inserted in lieu thereof, that the bill be
advanced to third reading, passed, and the motion to reconsider laid on
the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that S.
3034 be indefinitely postponed.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The title was amended so as to read, A bill to direct the Secretary
of Agriculture to carry out forest and rangeland renewable resources
research, and for other purposes.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have
printed in the RECORD an excerpt from the report (No. 95-880),
explaining the purposes of the measure.
There being no objection, the excerpt was ordered to be printed in
the RECORD, as follows,
S. 3034 replaces the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 with an updated and
expanded authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to implement
programs of forest and rangeland renewable resources research. The
major provision of S. 3034 would
(1) Authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct forest and
rangeland renewable resources research, including
(a) management research,
(b) environmental research,
(c) resource protection research,
(d) resource utilization research, and
(e) resource assessment research.
(2) Direct the Secretary to perform, and keep current, a
comprehensive survey and analysis of the status of renewable resources
in the Nation's forests and rangelands, in order to assure the
availability of information for the periodic assessments of forests and
rangelands required under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Planning Act of 1974,
(3) Authorize the Secretary to establish and maintain a system of
experiment stations and other facilities for conducting renewable
resources research.
(4) Expand the Secretary's authority to acquire land and to accept
donated money and property for renewable resources research,
(5) Establish a special fund in the U.S. Treasury for the deposit of
research donations,
(6) Provide the Secretary new authority to cooperate with persons in
foreign nations in renewable resources research,
(7) Authorize the Secretary to make competitive grants to further the
research activities under the bill,
(8) Authorize advances of funds to grantees and persons cooperating
with the Secretary in performing research under the bill,
(9) Direct the Secretary to coordinate cooperative aid and grants for
research under the bill to avoid duplication of effort,
(10) Direct the Secretary to disseminate the information developed
from research conducted under, or supported by, the bill,
(11) Authorize appropriations to implement the bill, with moneys
appropriated under the bill remaining available until expended; and
(12) Repeal the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928.
Forest and rangeland renewable resources research by the Department
of Agriculture is conducted by almost 1,000 Forest Service scientists
located in eight regional experiment stations, a national forest
products laboratory, and three institutes of forestry one each located
in Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Each of the regional experiment
stations has several field laboratories, usually located on the campuses
of, and maintained in cooperation with, universities. The field
laboratories frequently include experimental forests, ranges,
watersheds, and other areas maintained especially for research.
Planning and coordination of the research programs are conducted at
several levels within the Forest Service research organization.
Cooperators and users of research are actively involved in program
planning.
The primary statutory authority for forest and rangeland renewable
resources research by the Department of Agriculture is contained in the
Act of May 22, 1928, known as the McSweeney-McNary Act.
Over the years, the McSweeney-McNary Act has been complicated by a
series of amendments to meet needs in certain specific areas. In
addition, it has been supplemented by other legislation with respect to
renewable resources cooperative research and research grant assistance.
The Act of April 6, 1956, is the authority now used for advances of
funds to universities and other organizations for cooperative research.
The Acts of September 6, 1958, and August 4, 1965, are the authorities
now used for advances of funds for grants for the conduct of basic and
applied research.
In short, the McSweeney-McNary Act is outdated and inadequate.
Although it has served forestry well, the changes during the last 50
years and the need for new direction in the research effort toward a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary basic and applied research program
require that it be substantially revised.
S. 3034 meets the need for a substantial revision of the
McSweeney-McNary Act. The bill represents a major effort on the part of
the Forest Service and the forestry, university, and conservation
communities to respond to the request of Chairman Herman E. Talmadge for
draft legislation to improve Federal programs that affect non-Federal
forests and rangelands.
S. 3034 would preserve the sound statutory base of the
McSweeney-McNaryAct, but would also provide updated, clearer, more
specific language as the basis for a comprehensive, long-term program of
forestry research.
In addition, S. 3034 would benefit the Federal forestry research
effort by placing special emphasis on the need for increased cooperation
and coordination among Federal and State agencies, universities, private
interests, and other groups in forestry research.
Also, the bill will help improve the quality of forestry research
through competitive grants for forest and rangeland research.
S. 3034 will clarify some of the "gray areas" in the existing
forestry research authority. For example, the bill would make clear
that fish, esthetics, recreation, and wilderness are resources
concerning which forestry research may be conducted, and that the scope
of forestry research extends to suburban and urban areas.
The importance of responsive and effective renewable resources
research is recognized by all. By updating the statutory authority for
this research, S. 3034 will provide a substantially better base for the
achievement of taday's research goals. ++EP++
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780607 (PART 7 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER
S 3035
124 CONG REC 16609 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 16609 TO 16610)
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Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar Order 811.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (S. 3035) to provide for an
expanded and comprehensive extension program for forest and rangeland
renewable ++EP++ resources which had been reported from the Committee on
Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry with an amendment to strike all after
the enacting clause and insert the following,
DEB DEBATE
SBR SENATE BILL REPORTED
780607 (PART 8 OF 10)
S 3035 (BILL TEXT OMITTED SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG RC 16610 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 16610 TO 16611)
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DEB DEBATE
780607 (PART 9 OF 10)
ROBERT C BYRD, SENATOR PRESIDING OFFICER
S 3035, HR 11779
124 CONG REC 16611 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 16611)
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Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I send to the desk certain
technical amendments. I ask unanimous consent that the reading be
dispensed with, and that the amendments be considered en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The
amendments are as follows,
On page 11, line 6, insert "the" immediately after "improve".
On page 12, line 14, strike out "to"
On page 13, line 9, insert a coma immediately after "806-807".
On page 13, line 24, strike out "carrying out" and insert in lieu
thereof "meeting".
On page 14, line 15, strike out "country" and insert in lieu thereof
"county".
On page 14, line 21, strike out "the director and administrative
heads" and insert in lieu thereof "the State director and administrative
heads of extension".
On page 15, line 3, insert "head or" immediately after "the
administrative".
On page 15, line 20, strike out "submitted" and insert in lieu
thereof "shall submit such plan".
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the amendments are
considered and agreed to en bloc.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question now is on agreeing to the
committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended,
was agreed to.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read
the third time.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the
Senate proceed now to the consideration of Calendar Order No. 861, which
is a companion House measure.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
The clerk will state the bill by title.
The assistant legislative clerk read as follows,
A bill (H.R. 11779) to provide for an expanded and comprehensive
extension program for forest and range land renewable resources.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that all
after the enacting clause be stricken; that the language of the Senate
bill, as amended, be inserted in lieu thereof; that the bill be
advanced to third reading, passed, and the motion to reconsider laid on
the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Now, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that
S. 3035 be indefinitely postponed.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to have
printed in the RECORD an excerpt from the report (No. 95-881),
explaining the purposes of the measure.
There being no objection, the excerpt was ordered to be printed in
the RECORD, as follows,
S. 3035 would provide for a comprehensive extension program for
forest and rangeland renewable resources. The major provisions of the
bill would
(1) Require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide educational
programs covering a broad range of renewable resource problems and
subject areas and a broad range of audiences (the programs are to be
developed by the Secretary in cooperation with State directors of
cooperative extension service program and eligible universities and
colleges -- land-grant colleges. 1890 colleges, and schools that
receive assistance under the McIntire-Stennis Act),
(2) Place responsibility for the development of each State renewable
resources extension program jointly with the State director of
cooperative extension programs and the administrative heads of extension
at eligible colleges and universities in the State, who would be
required to (a) consult with those responsible for forestry research in
the State in developing the State extension programs, (b) appoint
advisory committees -- that include in their membership forest and range
landowners and professionally trained managers of renewable resources --
to aid in the State extension effort, and (c) encourage cooperation in
the State extension effort among all renewable resource agencies that
operate in the State,
(3) Require review of renewable resources extension programs by the
National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board
established under title XIV of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977,
(4) Place responsibility for the administration of each State
renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Soil and Water
Reoperative extension programs -- except in States that have 1890
colleges where the program would be administered by the State director
and the administrative heads for extension at the 1890 college or
colleges in the State,
(5) Require the Secretary to prepare a series of 5-year plans for
implementing the bill, to be called the "renewable resources extension
program." (the programs are (a) to provide national emphasis and
direction as well as guidance to State directors of extension and
administrative heads of extension at eligible schools, and (b) to be
based on information provided through the Forest and Rangeland Renewable
Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Soil and Water Resources
Conservation Act of 1977),
(6) Require the Secretary to submit annual reports to Congress on the
status of the program,
(7) Authorize appropriations -- of up to $15 million per year for
each of the 10 years beginning with fiscal year 1979 -- to implement the
bill,
(8) Require the allocation of appropriated funds to States on the
basis of the productive capabilities of each State's private forests and
rangelands, and the relative needs of each State for forest and
rangeland renewable resources -- with information on which the
allocation of funds is to be based to be provided through the Forest and
Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Soil and
Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977; and
(9) Make the bill effective for the period beginning October 1, 1978,
and ending September 30, 1988.
Nearly two-thirds of the renewable resource-producing lands in the
United States are privately held. The resources these lands produce
include timber, range, fish, wildlife, recreation sites, shelterbelts,
and watersheds.
The operation and management of privately held lands are important to
the Nation because the United States needs the renewable resources these
lands are capable of producing. Efficient production of renewable
resources on these lands will satisfy consumer demands that otherwise
would have to be met by production on public lands.
If we are to see more efficient production of renewable resources
from private lands, the owners of the land, especially owners of small,
nonindustrial plots of forest or rangeland, need more information about
the production potential of their land and how they can better manage
and use renewable resources. With better understanding of how their
lands can produce renewable resources, private landowners can be
motivated to take voluntary actions to improve or conserve such
resources.
The Extension Service currently conducts renewable resources
education programs for forest and rangeland owners and others, involving
180 forestry and wildlife specialists, and 39 fisheries and aquaculture
specialists. An additional 80 specialists employed in extension work
are supported by the Department of Commerce sea grant program.
The Department of Agriculture, however, has recognized the need to
strengthen forest resource extension programs.
An interagency group composed of representatives of all Department of
Agriculture agencies having forest resources programs met in October
1977 to consider interagency coordination. This group concluded that
the level of extension forestry activities is so inadequate in most
States that essential educational support of forestry programs is weak
or nonexistent, and that extension programs in other renewable resources
subject areas are similarly weak.
The 1978 Department of Agriculture Interagency Agreement on Forestry
includes as an objective: To design and build an extension component
into all relevant forestry activities and programs -- at the formative
stage of new efforts, and through modification of ongoing or expanding
programs as appropriate.
There is a clear need to provide the legal framework and policy
direction for the development by the Department of Agriculture of a
comprehensive national renewable resources extension program.
S. 3035 will meet this need. The bill represents a major effort on
the part of the Forest Service and the forestry, university, and
conservation communities to respond to the request of Chairman Herman E.
Talmadge for draft legislation to improve Federal programs that affect
non-Federal forests and rangelands. It would authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to establish a comprehensive extension program directed
toward private landowners, to be implemented through land-grant and
other eligible colleges and universities. ++EP++
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780607 (PART 10 OF 10)
LEAHY, SENATOR
DOLE, SENATOR
HELMS, SENATOR
S 3033, S 3034, S 3035, S 1426, S 1630, S 1856
124 CONG REC 16611 (PERMANENT EDITION)
SUMMARY OF FORESTRY LEGISLATION BILLS (PAGES 16603 TO 16613)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1478 TO 1496)
FORESTRY LEGISLATION (PAGES 16611 TO 16613)
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Mr. LEAHY. These three bills, S. 3033, dealing with cooperative
forestry, S. 3034, dealing with forest and rangeland renewable
resources research, and S. 3035, dealing with renewable resource
extension, have been unanimously reported by the Committee on
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These bills had the strong support of Chairman HERMAN TALMADGE and
ranking member, Senator ROBERT DOLE.
I think it would be useful to outline the significant legislative
efforts over the past several years of which these bills are the most
recent result.
I would be remiss if I did not point out that the late Hubert
Humphrey, working with his customary diligence and foresight, teamed
with Chairman TALMADGE in what has become a bipartisan effort to chart a
renewable resources conservation course that will stand this Nation in
good stead far into the future. Senators JOHN STENNIS and George Aiken
have also played significant roles in this effort to improve the
management of our forests and rangelands, both private and public.
The modern era of conservation began in 1960 when the Forest Service
Multiple-Use and Sustained-Yield Act was passed, followed by the
McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. In 1974,
new ground was charted with the passage of the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act, authored by Senator Humphrey. This
act created a modern and flexible planning mechanism, whereby the Forest
Service prepares periodically an "assessment" of the demand and supply
of the Nation's 1.6 billion acres of forest and rangelands, and a
program for the management of national forests, forest research, and
Federal cooperative assistance to States and private landowners.
The year 1976 marked a full reform of the basic authorities for the
management of the 190-million-acre national forest system. There
remained, however, three areas in need of modernization, cooperative
forestry, renewable resources research, and renewable resources
extension.
Following enactment of the National Forest Management Act in 1976,
Chairman TALMADGE wrote to the Chief of the Forest Service regarding
forestry on non-Federal lands. In that letter Chairman TALMADGE
concluded that the enactment of the National Forest Management Act had
resolved most of the competitive disputes surrounding Federal forest
lands, but that neither the 1976 act nor the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 had properly addressed the
problems of resource management on, and timber supply from, the 296
million acres of non-industrial private forest and rangelands.
Chairman TALMADGE asked the Forest Service for legislative drafting
service in developing a bill to use cooperative forest management,
research, and extension to increase the benefits from these lands.
The Forest Service responded to this request. State foresters,
researchers, and extension personnel were brought to a 2-day seminar in
Washington to discuss how to deal with Chairman TALMADGE'S request.
From that meeting, a bill was developed containing separate titles for
cooperative forest management, research, and extension.
Chairman TALMADGE then asked the Society of American Foresters, the
American Forestry Association, and various elements of the timber
industry to comment on the bill and attempt to improve it. This
improvement process took all of 1977 and continued into 1978.
On April 29, 1977, Senator JACOB JAVITS of New York introduced S.
1426, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to States
for urban forestry.
On May 27, 1977, Senators Hubert Humphrey and JOHN STENNIS introduced
S. 1630 which was the research title of the bill developed by the Forest
Service.
On July 14, 1977, Senator MARK O. HATFIELD introduced S. 1856, a bill
to provide for a cooperative forest resources extension program.
Working cooperatively with Chairman TALMADGE, I reintroduced these
bills earlier this year to conform the language of legislation with
changes being made by the House Committee on Agriculture. Congressman
WEAVER of Oregon is the prime sponsor of the House companion bills.
What do these bills do?
The Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, S. 3033, consolidates into
one statute, existing assistance programs now in seven statutes. The
bill provides for technical and financial assistance in rural forestry,
utilizing the combined authority in section 4 of the Clark-McNary Act,
the Cooperative Forest Management Act, and title IV of the Agricultural
Act of 1956 to, first, develop genetically improved tree seeds; second,
provide tree seeds and trees to establish forests, windbreaks,
shelterbelts, woodlots, and other plantings; third, plant tree seeds
and trees for the reforestation of forest lands and the afforestation of
other lands, fourth, perform a variety of silvicultural practices
designed to improve timber stands on non-Federal lands, and fifth,
provide technical assistance to private landowners, vendors, forest
operators, wood processors, public agencies, and individuals.
The bill would consolidate into one, the authorities and policies of
the Clark-McNary Act, the Cooperative Forest Management Act, and title
IV of the Agricultural Act of 1956.
It would also go a step further providing financial assistance for
timber stand improvement on non-Federal lands through the forestry
incentives program.
The forestry incentives program would essentially be a cost-sharing
program for small forest landowners -- farmers, ranchers, recreation
homeowners, and others -- holding land of sufficient size and quality
efficiently to produce crops of industrial wood, either of softwood or
hardwood species, or both. By raising the general-size limitation for
eligibility to 1,000 acres, and placing a 5,000-acre maximum limit on
eligibility, this bill will continue the national commitment to help
small forest landowners.
This bill will also strengthen the ability of our States, working
with local groups, to promote in each State the type of forestry and
renewable resources efforts that will assure the multiple benefits of
the forests will be achieved.
S. 3035, the Renewable Resources Extension Act, is an important
companion to the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, S. 333. This bill
broadens the effectiveness of USDA by tieing the improvements developed
in the management program to its educational program in the Extension
Service. The bill provides forestry extension with its own funding
authority thus eliminating competition between forestry and agricultural
interests. Furthermore, the bill reestablishes the boundaries of the
forestry extension program which have been eroded through years and
years of financial neglect.
The third bill, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research
Act, S. 3034, continues and strengthens research in all facets of
renewable resource activity. This bill is not limited to botanical
research on forest and rangeland but, rather, covers the whole spectrum
of ecologic, economic, and social research, resource utilization, and
urban forestry.
The research bill also continues the long standing authority for the
Forest Service to conduct resource condition surveys at the national,
State, and local level. This authority is one of the more important
ones in aggravating information essential to identifying problems and to
planning both public and private actions.
In addition, the Secretary of Agriculture is newly authorized to
cooperate with other countries in renewable resource research, as well
as to enter into competitive grants.
Research is an important part of management, and the bill directs the
Secretary to disseminate information developed by research efforts.
I want to thank James Geltmeier, Phil Froas, and Carl Rose of the
Agricultural Committee, Robert Wolfe of the Congressional Research
Service, and Margaret Gross and Leon Murphy of my staff for their help
in guiding this legislation through the legislative process.
Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I am pleased to rise in support of S. 3033,
S. 3034, and S. 3035. The bills reform and improve existing law. They
have broad support among environmental and forestry groups. They are a
natural conclusion to the work begun in 1973 by Senator Hubert Humphrey
when he initiated the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning
Act.
S. 3033 consolidates eight laws into one, and provides a flexible
framework through which State foresters and private consultants can help
nonindustrial woodlot owners to make additional income from their land
while assisting the Nation in meeting its timber needs for the future.
S. 3034 is a forestry companion to the outstanding agricultural
research title which the Congress approved last year in the farm bill.
Now all of our renewable resources are tied together in a research
program which will make sense because it will establish research
priorities and eliminate duplicative efforts that are wasteful and cost
the taxpayers needlessly.
S. 3035 puts the enormously efficient machinery of the cooperative
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The programs sponsored under this bill will provide for Extension to
take the fruits of renewable resource research and deliver them to our
farmers so that they can be put into action.
As I said, Senator Humphrey initiated the early steps to get the
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to focus on our
renewable resource needs. But several other members of the committee
have been especially active and effective in the area of protecting our
renewable natural resources. At this point I would like to say a word
on behalf of one of those Senators -- the Senator from North Carolina
(Mr. HELMS) who worked vigorously for this legislation.
Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I would like to add my own voice to that
of Senator Dole in that regard. Senator HELMS was not only a cosponsor
of this legislation but a strong backer of the legislation in our
committee.
Mr. DOLE. This week, my distinguished colleague from North Carolina
(Mr. HELMS) was named as one of the "Dirty Dozen." That is, some
faceless group has decided that Senator HELMS, Senator THURMOND, and 10
Members of the House are among the worst enemies of the environment.
Since Senator HELMS serves on the committee with me, I know his work
best. And I know that those who say he is an antienvironmentalist are
grossly misinformed.
In 1974 our committee caused to be enacted the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act. That bill was passed with the full
support of virtually every environmental organization in the country.
It was labeled as the most important forestry legislation in 15 years.
JESSE HELMS was a supporter of that bill, and he worked hard for it.
In 1975 the committee began work on what was then called the Land and
Water Resources Conservation Act. It was a new charter for the Soil
Conservation Service. The bill was widely supported by most
environmental organizations. Last year that bill became law, and JESSE
HELMS was one of its cosponsors.
In 1976, in cooperation with the Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, our committee caused to be enacted the National Forest
Management Act. Environmental and forestry organizations called the
bill the most important and worthwhile renewable resources legislation
since the 1897 Organic Act of the Forest Service. JESSE HELMS was a
sponsor of that legislation, and he worked as hard as any member of our
committee to get it passed. Senator THURMOND also supported the bill
strongly.
As I pointed out earlier, the bills we are considering today are
endorsed by such organizations as the National Audubon Society and the
National Wildlife Federation. The environmental movement wants them.
JESSE HELMS has cosponsored them all.
I do not know what it takes to stay off the list.
But I do know this. In the past 4 years the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry has been responsible for some of
the most significant environmental legislation that this Congress has
passed in some time. JESSE HELMS was there. He was involved. He
helped get job done.
If Senator HELMS is against a clean environment, then I say we all
are.
Those responsible for making the "Dirty Dozen" list have done a great
disservice to a fine Senator.
Mr. President, I urge my colleagues in the Senate to give unanimous
support to these bills before us.
Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, of course I am grateful to my distiguished
colleague, Senator DOLE, and my equally distinguished colleague from
Vermont (Mr. LEAHY) for their kind remarks.
Mr. President, I am pleased to fully support S. 3033, 3034, and 3035,
the three forestry bills that are before the Senate. I am an active
cosponsor of each bill because each one provides an opportunity for
private individuals with the cooperative assistance of their Federal,
State, and local Governments to improve our forests and our use of wood
products. S. 3033, the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act should
enable the Federal Government, through its programs of cooperation with
States, to enable local landowners to more effectively protect and
manage the over 350 million acres that some 4 million Americans own.
These privately owned lands are the backbone of our Nations 500 million
acres of forested lands. Many of these holdings are associated and
linked with farms. Many of these holdings are the woodlots of America
that can help rural America mantain its economic and social strength and
character.
The various authorities assure that governmental actions will be the
kind that assist rather than the kind that coerce. The authorities have
been brought together in a way that promotes private initiative.
S. 3035, the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 provides
needed authority for State cooperative extension services in cooperation
with the participating universities, to more effectively promote
renewable resource education. It draws in, through advisory committees
to be made of knowledgeable local people, a way to assure that the best
efforts are supported. It provides for effective grassroots planning,
brought together so that the Federal response will be useful in
achieving locally devised goals in a national framework.
These two acts are part of a process of renewable resource
improvement on a national basis developed on the concept of building
from the ground up. These bills are designed to produce constant
progress rather than some massive infusion of Federal money. These acts
represent a conservative approach in the best sense of that word. We
are building on progress achieved to date, we are encouraging individual
initiative, we are encouraging sensible assistance that functions at the
local service level of government, we are containing the Federal role to
being the catalyst and coordinator, not the director.
The third act, S. 3034, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
Research Act of 1978, represents a complete and constructive
modernization of the research authorities. It repeals outmoded
authorities, brings together in a more coordinated manner the
authorities that are needed and strengthens direction so that both basic
and applied research can be balanced. It enhances the vital need to get
research from the laboratory to practice. It would not be proper to
indicate which lines of research should be favored, and the bill does
not do this. These determinations are left to the need to develop a
line of research and coordination of various research activities. Each
area of research thus stands on its own set of merits. Increased fire
control research may be significant in some areas, research on various
types of insects and diseases will face changing priorities as new
conditions emerge. Research on the interrelation between various plant
and animal communities and the impact of various management practices
will vary with forest age, condition, and sites.
Certainly one of the areas that is of major importance and deserving
of most careful development of well planned research is in the field of
resource utilization and especially wood and tree utilization.
Finally the bill continues the authority of the Forest Service to
make resource surveys and assessments and economic studies. The
development, on a cooperative basis, of good basic information and
analysis is fundamental to equipping local people to develop local plans
based on good facts. The development of good resource data by type of
ownership, the analysis of forest and range conditions, studies of
effects of various management practices, studies of the effects of
taxation and other costs that affect land and its values and uses,
studies of use versus waste, can all help provide solid data on which
local plans can be devised that work to meet local goals. The Forest
Service has long made national, State, regional, and local surveys. All
of these useful authorities are continued.
One new authority, adequately described in the report on the bill
permits the use of competitive grants for research. This along with the
coordinating machinery in the bill, should provide sound administrative
opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of research efforts.
Early in the move to develop these bills, I worked closely and
cooperatively with the late Senator from Minnesota who exercised, along
with our Chairman, Senator TALMADGE, a constructive leadership role in
persuading the administration on the need for modernization of the law
to promote private resource management. We recognized that it is the
private landowner, the private land base, private initiative, and
private interest that in the long run will assure our national abundance
of renewable resources from forest and rangeland.
These three acts are major contributions to improved natural resource
management.
DEB DEBATE
780616 (PART 1 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11777
124 CONG REC 17915 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 17915)
DEB DEBATE
HBR HOUSE BILL REPORTED
780616 (PART 2 OF 9)
HR 11777 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 17915 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978, REPORTED BY WEAVER,
CONGRESSMAN (PAGES 17915 TO 17918)
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Mr. WEAVER, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's desk the bill (H.R. 11777) Tto authorize and direct the
Secretary of Agriculture to provide cooperative forestry assistance to
States and other, and for other purposes, with Senate amendments
thereto, and concur in the Senate amendments.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
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WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE JOHNSON, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11777
124 CONG REC 17918 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 17918)
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Mr. WEAVER (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous
consent that the Senate amendments be considered as read and printed in
the RECORD.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oregon,
There was no objection.
Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, H.R. 11777, as amended by the Senate, is
virtually identical with the House version. The amendments are only
technical or a matter of style with one exception which is clarifying
and does not change the intent of the legislation
I have consulted with the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee
on Forests. Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado, and I believe the Senate
amendments to be acceptable to him and the other members of the
subcommittee.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker will the gentleman yield,
Mr. WEAVER I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for
yielding.
Mr. Speaker, the gentleman's statement is correct, and we accept the
amendments.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the first request of
the gentleman from Oregon,
There was no objection.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
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780616 (PART 4 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11778
124 CONG REC 17918 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 7920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGE
17918)
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Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the
speakers's desk the bill (H.R. 11778) to authorize and direct the
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out forest and rangeland renewable
resources research, to provide cooperative assistance for such research
to States and others, and for other purposes, with Senate amendments
thereto, and concur in the Senate amendments.
The clerk read the title of the bill.
The clerk read the Senate amendments as follows,
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HBR HOUSE BILL REPORTED
780616 (PART 5 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11778 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 17918 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978,
REPORTED BY WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN (PAGES 17918 TO 17919)
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(BILL TEST OMITTED. SEARCH AS A SEPARATE ITEM IN THE BILL FILE.)
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DEB DEBATE
780616 (PART 6 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
JOHNSON, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11778
124 CONG REC 17919 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO CARRY
OUT FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH, TO PROVIDE
COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH RESEARCH TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGE
17919)
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Mr. WEAVER (during the readingg). Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous
consent that the Senate amendments be considered as read and printed in
the RECORD.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oregon?
There was no objection.
Mr. WEAVER Mr. Speaker. H.R. 11778, as amended by the Senate, is
virtually identical with the House version. With two exceptions, the
amendments are technical or a matter of style. The two other amendments
are technical oversights and do not change the intent of the act.
They would simply allow contracts and agreements established under
the McSweeney-McNary Act -- which would be repealed and replaced by H.R.
11778 -- to remain in effect until revoked or amended and also permit
funds appropriated under the authority of the McSweeney-McNary Act to be
available for expenditure for programs authorized under H.R. 11778.
I have consulted with the banking minority menber of the Subcommittee
on Forest. Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado and I believe the Senate mention of
H.R. 11778 to be acceptable to him as well as the rest of the members
of the subcommittee.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, will the gentlemen yield?
Mr. WEAVER. I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speacker, the gentleman's statement is
accurate, and we do accept the Senate amendments.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the first request of
the gentlemen from Oregon?
There was no objection.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
780616 (PART 7 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11779
124 CONG REC 17919 (PREMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 17919)
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Mr. WEAVER Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the
Speaker's desk the bill (H.R. 11779) to provide for an expanded and
comprehensive extension program for forest and rangeland renewable
resources, with a Senate amendment thereto, and concur in the Senate
amendment.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The Clerk read the Senate amendment. as follows, ++EP++
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HBR HOUSE BILL REPORTED
780616 (PART 8 OF 9)
HR 11779 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 17919 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978, REPORTED BY WEAVER,
CONGRESSMAN (PAGES 17919 TO 17920)
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780616 (PART 9 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
JOHNSON, CONGRESSMAN
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
HR 11779
124 CONG REC 17920 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED AND COMPREHENSIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM
FOR FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOUCES (PAGES 17915 TO 17920)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1497 TO 1507)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 17920)
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Mr. WEAVER (during the reading). Mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous
consent that the Senate amendment be considered as read and printed in
the RECORD.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentleman from Oregon?
There was no objection.
Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker. H.R. 11779 as amended by the Senate is
virtually identical with the House version of the bill. The changes are
only technical or a matter of style.
I have consulted with the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee
on Forests. Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado and I believe the Senate version of
H.R. 11779 to be acceptable to him as well as to the other members of
the subcommittee.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. WEAVER I yield to the gentleman from Colorado.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for
yielding.
His statement is correct, and we do accept the Senate amendment.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the first request of
the gentleman from Oregon?
There was no objection.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
HR 11777
124 CONG REC 14861 (PERMANENT EDITION)
SUSPENDING THE RULES AND PASSING THE BILLS (PAGES 14861 TO 14863)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1473 TO 1477)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE
Q ACT OF 1978 (PAGES Q 14861 TO 14862)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question of
suspending the rules and passing the bill H.R. 11777, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) that the House suspend the rules and
pass the bill H.R. 11777, as amended, on which the yeas and nays are
ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were -- years 373,
nays 2, not voting 59, as follows.
Abdnor; Addabbo; Akaka; Alexander; Ambro; Ammerman; Anderson;
Ill Andrews; N. Dak.; Annunzio; Archer; Armstrong; Ashbrook; Aspin;
Badham Bafalis; Baldus; Barnard; Bauman; Beard; Tenn.; Bedell;
Beilenson Benjamin; Bennett; Bevill; Bingham; Blanchard; Blouin;
Boggs; Boland Bolling; Bonior; Bonker; Bowen; Brademas; Breaux;
Brinkley; Brodhead Brooks; Broomfield; Brown, Calif.; Brown, Mich.;
Brown, Ohio; Broyhill Buchanan; Burgener; Burke, Fla.; Burke, Mass.;
Burleson, Tex Burlison, Mo.; Burton, John; Burton, Phillip; Butler;
Byron Caputo; Carney
Carr; Cavanaugh; Cederberg; Chappell; Chisholm; Clawson, Del
Clay; Cleveland; Cohen; Coleman; Collins, Ill.; Conable; Conte
Corcoran; Corman; Cornell; Cornwell; Cotter; Coughlin; Cunningham
D'Amours; Daniel, Dan.; Daniel, R.W.; Danielson; Davis; Delaney
Derrick; Derwinski; Devine; Dickinson; Dicks; Diggs; Dingell;
Dodd Dornan; Downey; Drinan; Duncan, Oreg.; Early; Eckhardt; Edgar
Edwards, Ala.; Edwards, Calif.; Edwards, Okla.; Eilberg; Emery;
English Erlenborn; Ertel; Evans, Colo.; Evans, Del.; Evans, Ga.;
Evans, Ind. Fary; Fascell; Fenwick; Fish
Fisher; Fithian; Flippo; Flood; Florio; Flowers; Flynt; Foley
Ford, Mich.; Forsythe; Fountain; Fowler; Frenzel; Gammage; Garcia
Gaydos; Gephardt; Giaimo; Gilman; Ginn; Glickman; Goldwater;
Gonzalez Goodling; Gradison; Grassley; Green; Gudger; Guyer;
Hagerdorn; Hall Hamilton; Hammerschmit; Hanley; Hannaford; Hansen;
Harkin; Harrington Harris; Harsha; Heckler; Hefner; Heftel;
Hightower; Hillis; Holland Holt; Holtman; Horton; Howard; Hubbard;
Huckaby; Hughes; Hyde; Ichord Ireland ++EP++
Jacobs; Jeffords; Jenkins; Johnson, Calif.; Johnson, Colo.; Jones,
Okla.; Jordan; Kastenmeier; Kazen; Kelly; Kemp; Ketchum Keys;
Kildee; Kindness; Kostmayer; Krebs; Krueger; LaFalce; Lagomarsino
Latta; Le Fante; Leach; Lederer; Leggett; Lehman; Lent; Levitas
Lloyd, Calif.; Long, La.; Long, Md.; Lott; Lujan; Lundine; McClory
McCloskey; McCormack; McDade; McEwen; McFall; McHugh; McKay;
McKinney Madigan; Maguire; Mahon; Mann; Markey; Marks; Marlenee;
Marriott Martin; Mathis; Mattox; Mazzoli; Meeds; Metcalfe; Meyner;
Michel Mikulski; Mikva; Milford; Miller, Calif.; Miller, Ohio;
Mineta; Minish Mitchell, Md.; Mitchell. N.Y.; Moakley
Moffett; Mollohan; Montgomery; Moore; Moorhead, Calif Moorhead,
Pa.; Moss; Mottl; Murphy, Ill.; Murphy, Pa.; Murtha Myers, Gary Myers,
John; Myers, Michael; Natcher; Neal; Nedzi; Nichols; Nix; Nolan
Nowak; O'Brien; Oberstar; Obey; Ottinger; Panetta; Patterson;
Pattison Pease; Pepper; Perkins; Pettis; Pickle; Pike; Poage;
Pressler; Preyer Price; Quayle; Quillen; Rahall; Railsback;
Rangel; Regula; Reuss Richmond; Rinaldo; Risenhoover; Roberts;
Robinson; Roe; Rogers; Rooney Rosenthal; Rostenkowski; Rousselot;
Roybal; Rudd; Ruppe; Russo; Ryan Santini; Sarasin; Satterfield;
Schroeder; Schulze; Sebelius Seiberling
Sharp; Shuster; Sikes; Simon; Sisk; Skelton; Skubitz; Slack
Smith, Iowa; Smith, Nebr.; Snyder; Solarz; Spellman; Spence; St
Germain Staggers; Stangeland; Stanton; Stark; Steed; Steers;
Steiger; Stockman Stratton; Studds; Symms; Taylor; Thompson;
Thone; Traxler; Trible Tsongas; Udall; Van Deerlin; Vander Jagt;
Vanik; Vento; Volkmer Waggonner; Walgren; Walker; Walsh; Wampler;
Watkins; Waxman; Weaver Weiss; Whalen; White; Whitehurst; Whitley;
Whitten; Wiggins Wilson, C. H.; Wilson, Tex.; Winn; Wirth; Wolff;
Wright; Wydler Wylie; Yates; Yatron; Young, Fla.; Young, Mo.;
Zablocki; Zeferetti
Collins, Tex.; McDonald
Allen; Anderson, Calif.; Andrews, N.C.; Applegate; Ashley; AuCoin
Baucus; Biaggi; Breckinridge; Burke, Calif.; Carter; Clausen, Don H.
Cochran; Conyers; Crane de la Garza; Dellums; Dent; Duncan, Tenn.
Findley; Ford, Tenn.; Fraser; Frey; Fuqua; Gibbons; Gore;
Hawkins Hollenbeck; Jenrette; Jones, N.C.; Jones, Tenn.; Kasten;
Livingston Lloyd, Tenn.; Luken; Murphy, N.Y.; Oakar; Patten;
Pritchard; Pursell
Quie; Rhodes; Rodino; Roncalio; Rose; Runnels; Sawyer; Scheuer
Shipley; Stokes; Stump; Teague; Thornton; Treen; Tucker; Ullman
Wilson, Bob; Young, Alaska; Young, Tex.
The Clerk announced the following pairs,
Mr. Jones of Tennessee with Mr. Carter.
Mr. Baucus with Mr. Duncan of Tennessee.
Mr. AuCoin with Mr. Frey.
Mr. Shipley with Mr. Bob Wilson.
Mr. Hawkins with Mr. Findley.
Mr. Biaggi with Mr. Treen.
Mr. Ashley with Mr. Don H. Clausen.
Mr. Breckinridge with Mr. Teague.
Mr. Fuqua with Mr. Runnels.
Mr. Ullman with Mr. Tucker.
Mrs. Burke of California with Mr. Young of Alaska.
Mr. Rodino with Mr. Cochran of Mississippi.
Mr. Murphy of New York with Mr. Scheuer.
Ms. Oakar with Mr. Sawyer.
Mr. de la Garza with Mr. Thornton.
Mr. Rose with Mr. Luken.
Mr. Patten with Mr. Crane.
Mr. Stokes with Mr. Kasten.
Mr. Dellums with Mr. Stump.
Mr. Jones of North Carolina with Mr. Pritchard.
Mr. Jenrette with Mr. Fraser.
Mr. Gore with Mr. Livingston.
Mr. Ford of Tennessee with Mr. Andrews of North Carolina.
Mrs. Lloyd of Tennessee with Mr. Pursell.
Mr. Anderson of California with Mr. Allen.
Mr. Applegate with Mr. Conyers.
Mr. Gibbons with Mr. Hollenbeck.
Mr. Dent with Mr. Roncalio.
So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were
suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
780522 (PART 2 OF 3)
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
HR 11778
124 CONG REC 14862 (PERMANENT EDITION)
SUSPENDING THE RULES AND PASSING THE BILLS (PAGES 14861 TO 14863)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1473 TO 1477)
FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESEARCH ACT OF 1978 (PAGES
14862 TO 14863)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished business is the question of
suspending the rules and passing the bill H.R. 11778, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) that the House suspend the rules and
pass the bill H.R. 11778, as amended, on which the years and nays are
ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were -- yeas 373,
nays 3. not voting 58, as follows.
Abdnor; Addabbo; Akaka; Alexander; Ambro; Ammerman; Anderson
III Andrews; N Dak; Annunzio; Archer; Armstrong; Ashbrook; Ashley;
Aspin Badham; Bafalis; Baldus; Barnard; Bauman; Beard, R.I.;
Beard, Tenn Bedell; Beilenson; Benjamin; Bennett; Bevill; Bingham;
Blanchard Blouin; Boggs; Boland; Bolling; Bonior
Bonker; Bowen; Bradenias; Breaux; Brinkley; Brodhead; Brooks
Broomfield; Brown, Calif; Brown, Mich; Brown, Ohio; Broyhill;
Buchanan Burgerner; Burke, Fla.; Burke, Mass.; Burleson, Tex.;
Burlison, Mo Burton, John; Burton, Phillip; Butler; Byron; Caputo;
Carney; Carr Cavanaugh; Cederberg; Chappell; Chisholm; Clawson,
Del; Clay; Claydos Cleveland; Cohen
Coleman; Collins, Ill.; Conable; Coore; Corroran; Corman;
Cornell Cromwell; Cotter; Coughlin; Cunningham; D'Amours; Daniel,
Dan Daniel, R.W.; Danielson; Davis; Delaney; Derrick; Derwinski;
Devine Dickinson; Dicks; Diggs; Dingell; Dodd; Dornan; Downey;
Drinan Duncan, Oreg.; Early; Eckhardt; Edgar; Edwards, Ala.; Edwards,
Calif Edwards, Okla.; Eilberg; Emery; English; Ertenborn; Ertel
Evans, Colo.; Evans, Ga.; Evans Ind.; Fary; Fascell; Fenwick; Fish
Fisher; Fithian; Flippo; Flood; Florio; Flowers; Flynt; Foley
Ford. Mich; Forsythe; Fountain; Fowler; Frenzel; Gammage Garcia;
Gephardt; Giaimo; Gilman; Ginn; Glickman; Goldwater; Gonzalez
Goodling; Gradison; Grassley; Green; Gudger; Guyer; Hagedorn;
Hall Hamilton; Hammerschmidt; Hanley; Hannaford; Hanson; Harkin
Harrington; Harris; Harsha; Heckler; Hefner; Heftel; Hightower;
Hillis Holland; Holt; Holtzman; Horton; Howard; Hubbard; Huckaby;
Hughes; Hyde Ichord; Ireland; Jacobs; Jeffords; Jenkins; Johnson,
Calif Johnson, Colo; Johnson Colo; Jones, Okla.; Jordan; Kastenmeier
Kazen; Kelly; Kemp; Ketchum; Keys; Kildee; Kindness Kostmayer;
Krebs; Krueger; LaFalce; Lagomarsino; Latta; Le Fante; Leach;
Lederer; Leggett; Lehman; Lent; Levitas; Loyd, Calif; Long La;
Long, Md.; Lott; Lujan; Lundine; McClory; McCormack; McDade McEwen;
McFall; McHugh; McKay; McKinney; Madigan; Maguire; Mahon; Mann
Markey; Marks; Marlenee; Marriott; Martin; Mathis; Mattox;
Mazzoli Meeds; Metcalfe; Meyner; Michel; Mikulski; Mikva; Milford
Miller, Calif.; Miller, Ohio,; Mineta; Minish; Mitchell, Md Mitchell,
Md.; Mitchell, N.Y.; Moakley; Moffett; Mollohan; Montgomery Moore;
Moorhead, Calif.; Moorhead, Pa.; Moss; Mottl; Murphy, Ill Murphy, Pa.;
Murtha; Myers, Gary; Myers, John; Myers, Michael; Natcher Neal;
Nedzi; Nichols; Nix; Nolan; Nowak; O'Brien; Oberstar; Obey
Ottinger; Panetta; Patten; Patterson; Pattison; Pease; Pepper;
Perkins Pettis; Pickle; Pike; Poage; Pressler; Preyer; Price;
Quayle; Quillen Rahall; Railsback; Rangel; Regula; Reuss;
Richmond; Rincildo; Risenhoover; Roberts; Robinson; Roe; Rogers;
Rooney; Rose; Rosenthal; Rostenkowski; Rousselot; Roybal Rudd;
Ruppe; Russo; Ryan; Santini; Sarasin; Satterfield; Scheuer
Schroeder; Schulze; Sebelius; Selberling; Sharp; Shuster; Sikes
Simon; Sisk; Skelton; Skubitz; Slack; Smith, Iowa; Smith, Nebr.;
Snyder Solarz; Spellman; Spence; St Germain; Staggers; Stangeland;
Stanton Stark; Steed; Steers; Steiger; Stockman; Stratton; Studds;
Symms Taylor; Thompson; Thone; Trader; Trible; Tsongas; Udall;
Van Deerlin Vander Jagt; Vanik; Vento; Waggonner; Walgren; Walker;
Walsh; Wampler Watkins; Waxman; Weaver; Weiss; Whalen; White;
Whitehurst; Whitley Whitten; Wiggins; Wilson, C.H.; Wilson, Tex.;
Winn; Wirth; Wolff Wright; Wydler; Wylie; Yates; Yatron; Young,
Fla.; Young, Mo.; Zablocki Zeferetti
Collins, Tex.; McDonald; Volkner
Allen; Anderson, Calif.; Andrews, N.C.
Applegate; AuCoin; Baucus; Biaggi
Breckinridge; Burke, Calif.; Carter ++EP++
Clausen, Don H.; Cochran; Conyers; Crane; dela Garza; Dellums
Dent; Duncan, Tenn.; Eckhart; Findley; Ford, Tenn.; Fraser; Frey
Fuqua; Gibbons; Gore
Hawkins; Hollenbeck; Jenrette; Jones, N.C.; Jones, Tenn.; Kasten
Leggett; Livingston; Lloyd, Tenn.; Luken; McClocksy Murphey, N.Y.;
Oakar; Pritchard; Quie; Rhodes
Rodino; Roncalio; Runneis; Sawyer; Shipley; Stokes; Stump;
Teague Thornton; Treen; Tucker; Ullman; Wilson, Bob; Young, Alaska
Young, Tex.
The Clerk announced the following pairs,
Mr. Jones of Tennessee with Mr. Carter.
Mr. Jenrette with Mr. Duncan of Tennessee.
Mr. AuCoin with Mr. Frey.
Mr. Baucus with Mr. Bob Wilson.
Mr. Shipley with Mr. Findley.
Mr. Hawkins with Mr. Treen.
Mr. Breckinridge with Mr. Don H. Clausen.
Mr. Fuqua with Mr. Teague.
Mrs. Burke of California with Mr. Runnels.
Mr. de la Garza with Mr. Tucker.
Mr. Stokes with Mr. Cochran of Mississippi.
Mr. Dellums with Mr. Sawyer.
Mr. Conyers with Mr. Thornton.
Mr. Jones of North Carolina with Mr. Luken.
Mr. Ford of Tennessee with Mr. Crane.
Mrs. Lloyd of Tennessee with Mr. Kasten.
Mr. Anderson of California with Mr. Stump.
Mr. Rodino with Mr. Pritchard.
Mr. Applegate with Mr. Fraser.
Mr. Blaggi with Mr. Livingston.
Mr. Dent with Mr. Andrews of North Carolina.
Mr. Eckhardt with Mr. Allen.
Mr. Gibbons with Mr. Hollenbeck.
Mr. Gore with Mr. Roncalio.
Mr. Murphy of New York with Mr. McCloskey.
Ms. Oakar with Mr. Quie.
Mr. Ullman with Mr. Young of Alaska.
Mr. Leggett with Mr. Pursell.
So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were
suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
780522 (PART 3 OF 3)
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
HR 11779
124 CONG REC 14863 (PERMANENT EDITION)
SUSPENDING THE RULES AND PASSING THE BILLS (PAGES 14861 TO 14863)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1473 TO 1477)
RENEWABLE RESOURCES EXTENSION ACT OF 1978 (PAGE 14863)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The unfinished question is the question of
suspending the rules and passing the bill H.R. 11779, as amended.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) that the House suspend the rules and
pass the bill. H.R. 11779, as amended, on which the yeas and Nays are
ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were -- yeas 377,
nays 7, not voting 50 as follows.
Abdnor; Addabbo; Akaka; Alexander; Ambro; Ammerman;
Anderson. Ill; Anderson, N.C
Andrews N. Dak; Annunzio
Applegate; Archer; Armstrong; Ashbrook; Ashley
Aspin; Badham; Befalis; Baldus; Barnard; Beard, R.I.; Beard,
Tenn
Bedell; Beilenson; Bennett; Bevill; Bingham; Blanchard; Blovin;
Boggs;
Boland; Bolling; Bonior; Bonker; Bowea; Brademas; Breaux;
Brinkley; Brodhead; Brooks; Broomfield; Brown Calif; Brown, Mich.;
Brown, Ohio; Broyhill; Buchanan; Burgener; Burke, Fla. Burke, Mass.;
Burleson, Tex.; Burlison. Mo.; Burton, John; Burton, Phillip Butler;
Byron; Caputo; Carney; Carr; Cavanaugh; Cederberg; Chappell
Chisholm; Clausen, Don H.; Clawson, Del; Clay; Cleveland; Cohen
Coleman; Collins, Ill.; Conable; Conte; Corcoran; Corman; Cornell
Cornwell; Cotter; Coughlin; Cunningham; D'Amours; Daniel, Dan
Daniel, R.W.; Danielson; Davis; dela Garza; Delaney; Dent; Derrick
Derwinski; Devine; Dickinson; Dicks; Diggs; Dignell;
Dodd; Dornan; Downey; Drinan;
Duncan, Oreg.; Early; Eckhardt; Edgar; Edwards, Ala.; Edwards,
Calif.; Edwards, Okla.; Eliberg; Emery; English; Erlenborn; Ertel
Evans, Colo.; Evans, Del.; Evans, Ga.; Fary; Fascell Fenwick; Fish;
Fisher; Fithian; Flippo; Flood; Florio; Flowers; Flynt; Foley;
Ford; Tanni Forsythe; Fountain; Fowler;
Frenzel; Gammage; Garcia; Gaydos; Giaimo; Gilman; Ginn;
Glickman Goldwater; Gonzalez; Goodling; Gradison; Grassley; Green;
Gudger Guyer; Hagedorn; Hall; Hamilton; Hammerschmidt; Hanley;
Hannaford Hansen; Harkin; Harrington; Harris; Harsha; Heckler;
Hefner; Heftel Hightower; Hillis; Holland; Holt; Holtzman; Horton;
Howard; Hubbard Huckaby; Hughes; Hyde; Ichord; Ireland; Jacobs;
Jeffords; Jenkins Johnson, Calif.; Johnson, Colo.; Jordan;
Kastenmeier; Kazen; Kelly Kemp; Ketchum; Keys; Kildee; Kindnese;
Kostmayer; Krebs Kroeger; LaFalce; Lagomarsino; Latte; Le Fente;
Leach; Lederer; Leggett; Lehman;
Lent; Levitas;
Lloyd, Calif.; Long, La.; Long, Md.; Lott; Lujan; Lundine; McClory
McCloskey; McCormack; McDade; McEwen; McFall; McHugh; McKay;
McKinney Madigan; Maguire; Mabon; Mann; Markey; Marks; Marriott;
Martin; Mathis; Mattox; Mazzoli; Meeds; Metcalfe; Meyner; Michel;
Mikulski;
Mikva; Milford; Miller, Calif.; Miller, Ohio; Mineta; Minish
Mitchell, Md.; Mitchell, N.Y.; Moakley; Moffett; Mollohan; Montgomery
Moore; Moorhead, Calif.; Moorhead, Pa.; Moss; Mottl Murphy, Ill.;
Murphy, N.Y.; Murphy, Pa.; Murtha; Myers, Gary; Myers, John Myers,
Michael; Natcher; Neal; Nedzi; Nichols; Nix; Nolan; Nowak
O'Brien; Oberstar; Obey; Ottinger; Panetta; Patten; Patterson;
Pattison Pease; Pepper; Perkins; Pertis; Pickle; Pike; Poage;
Pressler; Preyer Price; Quayle; Quillen; Rahall; Railsback;
Rangel; Regula; Reuss Richmond; Rinaldo; Risenhoover; Roberts;
Robinson; Roe; Rogers; Rooney Rose; Rosenthal; Rosterkowski;
Rousselot;
Roybal; Rudd; Ruppe; Russo; Ryan; Santini; Sarasin;
Satterfield Scheuer; Schroeder; Schulze; Sebelius; Seiberling;
Sharp; Shuster Sikes; Simon; Sisk; Skelton; Skubitz; Slack;
Smith, Iowa Smith, Nebr.; Snyder; Solarz;
Spellman; Spence; St. Germain; Staggers; Strangeland;
Stanton; Stark; Steed; Steers; Steiger; Stockman; Stratton;
Studds Symms; Taylor; Thompson; Thone; Traxler; Tribble;
Tsongas; Udall; Van Deerlin; Vander Jagt; Vanik; Vento;
Waggonner; Walgren; Walker; Walsh; Wampler; Watkins; Waxman
Weaver; Weiss; Whalen; White; Whitehurst; Whitley; Whitten;
Wiggins; Wilson, C. H.; Wilson, Tax;
Winn; Wirth; Wolff; Wright; Wydler; Wylie; Yates; Yatron
Young, Fla.; Young, Mo.; Zablocki; Zeferetti
Benjamin; Collins, Tex.; Evans, Ind
Gephardt; Jones, Okla; McDonald
Volkiler
Allen; Anderson, Calif.; AuCoin; Baucus; Biaggi; Breckinridge
Burke, Calif.; Carter; Cochran; Conyers; Crane; Dellums Duncan,
Tenn.; Findley; Ford, Mich.; Fraser
Frey; Guqua; Gibbons; Gore; Hawkins; Hollenbeck; Jenrette
Jones, N. C.; Jones, Tenn.; Kasten; Livingston; Lloyd, Tenn.; Luken
Marlenee; Oakar; Pritchard; Pursell
Quie; Rhodes; Rodino; Roncalio; Runnels; Sawyer; Shipley;
Stokes Stump; Teague; Thornton; Treen; Tucker; Ullman; Wilson, Bob
Young, Alaska; Young, Tex
The Clerk announced the following pairs.
Mr. Jones of Tennessee with Mr. Carter.
Mr. Jenrette with Mr. Duncan of Tennessee.
Mr. AuCoin with Mr. Frey.
Mr. Baucus with Mr. Bob Wilson.
Mr. Shipley with Mr. Findley.
Mr. Hawkins with Mr. Treen.
Mr. Breckinridge with Mr. Gibbons.
Mr. Fuqua with Mr. Teague.
Mrs. Burke of California with Mr. Runnels.
Mr. Rodino with Mr. Tucker.
Mr. Stokes with Mr. Coohran of Mississippi.
Mr. Dellums with Mr. Sawyer.
Mr. Conyers with Mr. Thornton.
Mr. Jones of North Carolina with Mr. Luken.
Mr. Ford of Michigan with Mr. Crame.
Mrs. Lloyd of Tennessee with Mr. Kasten.
Mr. Anderson of California with Mr. Stump.
Mr. Biaggi with Mr. Prichard.
Mr. Gore with Mr. Fraser.
Ms. Oaker with Mr. Livingston.
Mr. Ullman with Mr. Allen.
Mr. Young of Alaska with Mr. Hollenbeck.
Mr. Marlenee with Mr. Roncalio.
Mr. Quia with Mr. Pursell.
So (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the rules were
suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
480522 (PART 1 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11777
124 CONG REC 14846 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 14846 TO 14855)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1456 TO 1473)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGE
Q 14846)
Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the
bill (H.R. 11777) to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture
to provide cooperative forestry assistance to States and others, and for
other purposes, as amended.
The Clerk read as follows. ++EP++
DEB DEBATE
HBR HOUSE BILL REPORTED
780522 (PART 2 OF 9)
HR 11777 (BILL TEXT OMITTED. SEARCH IN BILL FILE.)
124 CONG REC 14846 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 14846 TO 14855)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1456 TO 1473)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 14846 TO 14849)
BILL FILE.
DEB DEBATE
780522 (PART 3 OF 9)
WEAVER, CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON, CONGRESSMAN SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE WAMPLER,
CONGRESSMAN AMMERMAN, CONGRESSMAN MOTTL, CONGRESSMAN
HR 11777, HR 8020, HR 11778, HR 11779
124 CONG REC 14849 (PERMANENT EDITION)
A BILL TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO
PROVIDE COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND OTHERS, AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES (PAGES 14846 TO 14855)
COMPILATION OF THE FOREST AND RANGELAND RENEWABLE RESOURCES ACT OF
1974 (PAGES 1456 TO 1473)
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1978 (PAGES 14849 TO 14851)
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is a second demanded?
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I demand a second.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, a second will be
considered as ordered.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) and
the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. JOHNSON) will be recognized for 20
minutes each.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER).
Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, the purpose of H.R. 11777 is.
To bring together in one statute authority for nine programs in
cooperative forestry assistance, namely
The cooperative tree seed and plant program,
The cooperative forest management program,
The cooperative tree improvement program,
The forestry incentives program,
The urban forestry technical assistance program,
The insect and disease control program.
The white pine blister rust protection program,
The cooperative forest fire program, and
The rural community fire program.
To expand some of these programs where the benefits are proven and
substantial.
To make clear the intent of Congress with respect to cooperative
forestry assistance to States, local governments, and private
landowners.
To authorize consolidated payments to States participating in
cooperative forestry assistance, rather than functional matching grants,
and in so doing, giving the States some flexibility in the disbursement
of funds so that they can better respond to forestry situations
requiring immediate action.
H.R. 11777 is needed because authorities for the cooperative forestry
assistance programs currently lie in seven different statutes spanning
more than 50 years, and some of the authorities have plainly become
inadequate because of the Nation's forest resources.
Further, there is a need to combine some of the programs and to
interrelate all of them for a more comprehensive and coordinated
cooperative forestry assistance effort.
Cooperative forestry assistance is necessary for several reasons.
First, private forest landowners often do not have the ability to apply
certain essential forest management practices. For example, it is
difficult or impossible for a private forest landowner to protect his
forest against wildfire, insect infestation, and disease epidemics. For
this reason, the cooperative forest fire program was established in 1924
by the Clarke-McNary Act, and the insect and disease control program was
established in 1947 by the Forest Pest Control Act.
Second, private forest landowners often do not have the knowledge to
apply certain desirable forest management practices. For example, even
though a landowner may want to reforest his land and have the means to
do so, he may not know the species best suited for his land or how to
plant the seedlings properly. Congressional recognition of the need for
a program providing technical assistance to forest landowners resulted
in passage of the Cooperative Forest Management Act of 1950.
Third, the private forest landowner may not engage in some forest
management practices because, from his perspective, the benefits
resulting from the practices are not worth their cost. However, the
benefits of these practices to the Nation might be substantial -- in
terms of yields of timber, wildlife, water quality, and outdoor
recreation opportunities and well worth their cost. Accordingly, the
Federal Government has provided a financial incentives program for
nonindustrial private forest landowners for tree planting of cutover
land, among other things, under the forestry incentives program
authorized by section 1009 of the Agricultural Act of 1971.
Mr. Speaker, more than 50 witnesses, including the administration,
have testified in support of the earlier version of H.R. 11777, H.R.
8020. No one testified against the bill. Such testimony was received
either during oversight hearings by the Subcommittee on Forests on the
implementation of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning
Act or during the hearing on H.R. 8020 and related bills, which the
subcommittee held on February 2, 1978. Witnesses included
representatives of academic and research institutions, State forestry
agencies, the timber industry, environmental or conservation groups, and
natural resource professional organizations.
Many suggestions have been made for improving the bill, and most of
them have been incorporated in H.R. 11777.
Mr. Speaker, I must give recognition to the origins of H.R. 11777.
It represents a major effort on the part of two Federal agencies, the
Forest Service and the Extension Service, and 10 private organizations,
The American Forestry Association, the Association of State College and
University Research Organizations, the Council of Forestry School
Executives, the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy of the
National Organization of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the
National Audubon Society, the National Association of State Foresters,
the National Forest Products Association, the National Wildlife
Management Institute.
The initial draft of the bill was prepared by the Forest Service in
response to a request for the agency's drafting service by Senator
HERMAN E. TALMADGE, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition, and Forestry. The draft was refined by an Areas of Agreement
Committee under the auspices of the American Forestry Association, and I
introduced the revised draft on June 24, 1977.
A comparable Senate bill was introduced by Senator PATRICK J. LEAHY
on February 10, 1978. A bill virtually identical to H.R. 11777 was
favorably reported out of the Senate Committee on Agriculture,
Nutrition, and Forestry on May 11, 1978.
Mr. Speaker, in view of the need for this legislation, in view if its
widespread support throughout the forestry community, in view of the
need to get our Nation's private forest lands producing more near their
potential, I urge the passage of H.R. 11777.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may
consume to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. WAMPLER).
Mr. WAMPLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 11777, the
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978.
The purpose of the bill is to lend impetus to the national
cooperative forestry effort by consolidating and updating, in one
statute, authority for nine existing programs in cooperative forestry
assistance to States, local governments, and private landowners;
expanding the programs where benefits are apparent and substantial;
authorizing consolidated payments to States rather than functional
++EP++ matching grants, thus permitting the States a limited degree of
flexibility in the disbursement of these funds under federally approved
plans.
The legislation before us today is needed because the authorizations
for the nine existing cooperative forestry assistance programs lie in
seven statutes enacted over a span of 50 years, and some of them no
longer respond adequately to present and future demands upon the
Nation's forests and rangelands renewable resources. Also, there is a
need to combine some of the programs, as well as to interrelate all of
them for a more efficient, coordinated, and effective cooperative
forestry assistance effort.
H.R. 11777 is the product of a major effort on the part of two
Federal agencies, the Forest Service and Extension Service, and 10
private organizations the American Forestry Association, the Association
of State College and University Forestry Research Organizations, the
Council of Forestry School Executives, the Extension Committee on
Organization and Policy of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, the National Audubon society, the
National Association of State Foresters, the National Forest Products
Association, the National Wildlife Federation, the Society of American
Foresters, and the Wildlife Management Institute.
More specifically, H.R. 11777 would,
First. Integrate the cooperative tree seed and plant program, the
cooperative forest management program and the cooperative tree
improvement program into one program -- rural forestry assistance.
Second. Authorize financial assistance to State foresters to carry
out silvicultural practices on non-Federal lands when private vendors of
such practices are not available.
Third. Clarify the role of the State forester in the administration
of the forestry incentives program -- FIP.
Fourth. Increase the acreage limitation in FIP from 500 to 1,000
acres.
Fifth. Broaden landowner eligibility in cost sharing under FIP to all
small forest landowners.
Sixth. Expand the insect and disease control program to the
protection of wood products, stored wood, and wood in use.
Seventh. Integrate the cooperative forest fire program with rural
community fire protection program.
Eighth. Establish a rural fire disaster fund which would be available
to the Secretary to assist States overwhelmed by a disastrous wildfire
situation.
Ninth. Formally establish programs in management assistance, planning
assistance and technology implementation.
Tenth. Make cooperative forestry assistance funds available to the
States until expended.
Eleventh. Specify all program appropriation authorizations as "such
sums as may be needed," rather than in dollar amounts.
Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of H.R. 11777.
Mr. JOHNSON of Colorado. Mr. speaker, I have no further requests for
time. I would just merely add my endorsement to the statement made by
the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) and the gentleman from Virginia
(Mr. WAMPLER). the ranking minority member on the Committee on
Agriculture, and I urge the committee to pass the bill as amended.
Mr. WEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to say that this bill
passed the Committee on Agriculture of the House unanimously and I urge
passage of H.R. 11777, as amended.
Mr. AMMERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of H.R.
11777, H.R. 11778, and H.R. 11779 -- three little-known but nonetheless
important bills to update and strengthen the Federal effort in forestry.
The fact that the bills are being considered under suspension of the
rules reflects the widespread support they enjoy as well as the lengthy
and careful effort that the Subcommittee on Forests of the House
Committee on Agriculture, on which I serve, has made in hearing all
interested parties and refining this legislation.
The basic objective of these bills is fulfillment of a proposition
advanced by Chairman WEAVER and other members of the Forests
Subcommittee during the series of hearings we held last year on
implementation of the Forest and Rangeland Resources Planning Act of
1974. It is that the Nation need not be faced with an either-or choice
between forest products on the one hand and the other values our forests
can supply -- such as wilderness, wildlife habitat, and recreation -- on
the other.
While we will never be without conflicts among the uses which can
validly be made of the Nation's forest lands, we can have enough of all
the types of resources which they provide. But that end will not be
attained over the coming decades without an increase in their
productivity. And that, in turn, will require more planning, better
management, and additional funds. It will also be necessary to fill
certain key gaps in the Nation's forestry effort.
The bills before us today are designed to achieve those objectives.
H.R. 11777, the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, is
predicated on the conclusion that the highest returns from additional
forestry effort can be obtained from private nonindustrial forest lands.
It would establish the first comprehensive Federal mandate for
cooperative forestry assistance to State and local governments and
private forest landowners. The bill would bring together in one statute
authority for eight such programs now scattered among seven statutes
enacted over a period of 50 years. Not only would it consolidate
various tree seed, plant and tree improvement program, H.R. 11777 is
also intended to encourage additional activity owners. And it would
also expand the Federal insect and disease control program as well as
establish a rural fire disaster fund with which the Secretary of
Agriculture could assist States confronted by wildfire disasters.
Mr. Speaker, I recognize that concern has been expressed by some
consulting foresters that some of the assistance activities authorized
by H.R. 11777 would be duplicative of, or competitive with, their
ongoing efforts to assist private forest landowners. I mention this to
make clear that I do not believe it is the intent of the bill's authors
in any way to stimulate or promote competition between public
authorities and private foresters. State foresters are to be
financially assisted in carrying out silvicultural activities on
non-Federal lands only where private vendors of these services are not
available. I am hopeful there is enough potential for increased
productivity on these lands to warrant additional assistance by both
State authorities and private consulting foresters. But if unintended
competitive situations were to develop, I am sure Congress would want to
be made aware of it so we could take remedial action.
The statutory authorizations for the Federal effort in forestry
research are equally in need of updating. It is the purpose of H.R.
11778, the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of
1978, to modernize the now outmoded McSweeney-McNary Act, which has been
the basic authority for forestry research for the past 50 years. This
legislation responds to recommendations made by two subcommittees of the
House Committee on Science and Technology after a special oversight
review of agricultural research. It would authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to carry out and support a comprehensive program of forest
and rangeland research as well as to maintain experiment stations and
other facilities for that purpose.
I would emphasize that H.R. 11778 does not authorize additional funds
for forestry research. Its purpose is to place this activity on a
stronger statutory foundation because of the growing demand for forest
resources and the need for a corresponding forestry research effort, not
to spend more money.
Such is not the case with the third of these bills, H.R. 11779 -- the
Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978. Its purpose is clearly to
establish an expanded forestry extension program at land-grant and other
eligible colleges and universities, and to provide an adequate fund
authorization for that purpose.
Over the years the forestry component has tended to be something of a
neglected stepchild of the agricultural extension program. Indeed, a
USDA group studying the situation found recently that forestry extension
"is so inadequate that essential educational support of forestry
programs and activities is weak or non-existent."
This is the one of the few areas in these bills, Mr. Speaker, in
which our committee did not accept a USDA recommendation. The
Department proposed to delete from H.R. 11779 the annual authorization
of $15 million in appropriations for forestry extension. We recognize
the desire of the department for flexibility, but we felt accepting this
proposal would have denied the basic premise underlying this bill, which
is that only an assured annual funding level for forestry extension will
redress the imbalance which has existed historically between this and
other components of the extension program. ++EP++
Let me say, however, that this is one of very few instances when
USDA's wishes were not accommodated in this legislation. Indeed, all
three of these bills represent a great deal of cooperation among and a
major effort by the Forest Service, the Extension Service and a variety
of private organizations, universities and other interested parties, as
well as our subcommittee members and staff. I hope you will agree that
these legislative products of that effort warrant your support.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by
the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. WEAVER) that the House suspend the rules
and pass the bill H.R. 11777, as amended.
The question was taken.
Mr. MOTTL. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 3 of rule XXVII, and the
Chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be
postponed. ++EP++
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