Frank Riggs: “Colleagues, first of all, in this very brief 2 minutes, I want to address something the gentleman from Washington [Mr.…”

“Colleagues, first of all, in this very brief 2 minutes, I want to address something the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks] said during debate on the rule. He said that my amendment in the full Committee on Appropriations last week to prohibit the Fish and Wildlife Service from enforcing the critical habitat designation for the marbled murrelet on private lands, privately owned property, would render the marbeled murrelet extinct in northern California. The question I have for Mr. Dicks is, when was the last time he visited us in northwest California? Because that critical habitat designation in my district alone, and this goes to the gentleman's staffer, too, who wrote his remarks, in my district alone this critical habitat designation applies to 693,000 acres in Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino Counties, and that breaks down as follows: 477,300 acres in Six Rivers National Forest, Federal property; Redwood National Park; the King Range National Conservation Area; and some parcels of Bureau of Land Management land. That is all federally owned property. And, in addition to that, the critical habitat designation applies to the 175,000 acres of State land, including State redwood parks, the Sinkyone Wilderness State Park, and some Mendocino State parks.”