Administration Position
Interior, Agriculture, and OMB Responses to H.R. 4570
The following statements regarding H.R. 4570, the Omnibus National Parks and Public Lands Act of 1998, were sent to Congress by the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and the Office of Management and Budget. Department of the Interior From a September 29, 1998, letter to Chairman Don Young (AK-R) of the House Committee on Resources from Secretary Bruce Babbitt of the US Department of the Interior. This bill contains many provisions that have previously been strongly opposed by the Administration. These provisions would cause serious damage to our natural resources by, among other things, removing land from…