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Frank Riggs: “I just want to get on the record right now how absurd that contention is. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
I just want to get on the record right now how absurd that contention is. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, there are an estimated 18,000 to 35,000 murrelets in Washington, Oregon, and California alone, with several hundred thousand additional birds in Alaska and British Columbia. The second point I want to make... that employment at that company has grown from approximately 950 employees at the time of the merger in 1986 to 1,600 employees as of last month, an increase of 650 living-wage jobs that cannot be easily replaced in our local economy. So this debate is about private property, as I said earlier, and the families and jobs that depend on that private property, not about a particular individual property owner.
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Frank Riggs
California
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Addressing concerns about an amendment's impact on the marbled murrelet and local employment.

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