Steven Holt: “The chairman must think that it is so inconvenient to deal with a…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2012

The chairman must think that it is so inconvenient to deal with a pesky public. Whether this is congressionally mandated or comes about in any way, something of this scale, that of involving the public's land, should involve the public in a very open way in understanding what it will be and in carrying it out. That's all this says. That's all this amendment would do. It would allow the NEPA process, the environmental process that applies to so many things around this country, to apply to this important transaction. I yield back the balance of my time.

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Sep 12, 2012

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