Andrea Joy Campbell: “These three issues were not specifically addressed in the report issued by the committee, although the part of the…”

“These three issues were not specifically addressed in the report issued by the committee, although the part of the report that discusses the meaning of section 4(a) of the substitute amendment does make the point, and fairly clearly I think, that there is no intent to alter or amend Federal environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act or to somehow limit the rights of persons or organizations to pursue any remedies that are otherwise available to them under such laws. The three precise issues you mention were not deliberately omitted from discussion in the report--to the contrary, they were not discussed in the report simply because those specific issues, as you have articulated them, were not aired during or after the hearing held on this legislation and, in fact, arose only after the amendment in the nature of a substitute was reported to the Senate on October 7, 2004.”