Scott Tipton

I have no further requests for time on this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

I do appreciate the opportunity to be able to speak in support of the bipartisan Land Ownership Collaboration Accelerates Life Act, otherwise known as the LOCAL Act.

I think we need to be trying to move to a win-win, rather than a win-lose scenario.

I do appreciate the efforts of our two colleagues to be able to look at resources to actually help the crumbling infrastructure that we are seeing on a lot of our public lands, and trying to get a sustainable revenue system for that.

I would respectfully disagree. I think that final assessment, as I read through that bill, it is actually also calling for renewable resources, not just oil and gas.

I have called for responsible, all-of-the-above energy policy on our Federal lands that includes, and we enumerate it in the bill, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, natural gas, oil, oil shale, coal.

We must also make sure that we provide certainty for the future generations, that their way of life will be preserved as well.

Our current system of dysfunction on spending measures will leave a wealth of uncertainty for our future generations.

I really support the idea of being able to return to regular order in the appropriations process.

I think it is remarkable, if we step back in time, not long ago they were saying that we were going to run out of energy in this country, we were going to have to be importing LNG into the United States, and now we are in a position to…

I appreciate your commitment and hopefully willingness to be able to work with us.

I certainly appreciate the Ranking Member pointing that out. That is actually a result of Federal policy.

I would like to commend him for traveling to Washington to testify in support of H.R. 4609.

The West Fork Fire Station Act conveys approximately 3.6 acres of National Forest System land to Dolores County for the strict purpose of building and operating a fire station in the West Fork area.

I am really grateful for that effort and proud to come from the area that we live in.

I certainly applaud all of the efforts. We have actually talked about this for several years, the importance of this, literally for our communities.

West Fork is in a remote part of Dolores County, Colorado, surrounded by the San Juan National Forest. Emergency and fire response is a challenge in this part of the county, because the closest fire station is currently 26 miles away.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening this hearing and bringing my bill, H.R. 4609, the West Fork Fire Station Act of 2017, up for consideration.

The U.S. Forest Service, the Dolores Fire Protection District, and constituents from Dolores County to secure land for a fire station

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate you convening the hearing today and bringing my bill, the West Fork Fire Station Act of 2017, up for consideration.

H.R. 4609 introduced by Representative Tipton of Colorado authorizes a conveyance of about 3 acres of National Forest System land to Dolores County, Colorado for a fire station and related infrastructure.

H.R. 4609, introduced by Congressman Scott Tipton of Colorado, would authorize the U.S. Forest Service to convey approximately 3.61 acres of Forest Service land.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Zeldin), a member of the Financial Services Committee and the sponsor of the legislation.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Poliquin), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Trott), a member of the Financial Services Committee and the sponsor of this legislation.