Charles Norwood: “here we go again, a different constituent, but the same old shenanigans, the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of…”

“here we go again, a different constituent, but the same old shenanigans, the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Jim Davis buys a house on Lake Thurman, so he can enjoy the beauty and recreational opportunity that this part of Georgia has to offer. That sounds easy enough, does it not? Yet, when the Corps gets involved, it is never easy, it is a pain in the neck. The Corps will not approve Dr. Davis's permit for lakeshore use until he replants trees within the underbrush area that was cut down some 25 years ago. It is not even his property, it is public property. That is fine, if Dr. Davis had been the one to cut down the trees, but he was not. He just bought the property. So the Corps, which obviously has nothing better to do than to harass my constituents, hassles a man who is simply trying to mind his own business and follow some commonsense rules. Mr. Speaker, it is time for the Corps to reform its bully mentality and its ludicrous shoreline management plan. If they cannot manage people, they cannot manage property.”