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One last very brief comment on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay itself, about 100 years ago, at the turn of the century, we took out of the bay on an annual basis up to 15 million bushels of oysters, 15 million. It was the…
We are here to pass the conference report that will do a great deal as far as restoring America's estuaries and other problems throughout our coastal regions and the Great Lakes of the United States. We are here because our approach to…
S. 1849, introduced by Senator Joe Biden from Delaware, designates approximately 190 miles of segments and tributaries of White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Companion…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 2984 directs the Secretary of Interior to convey all right, title and interest in the Middle Loup Division to the Farwell Irrigation District; the Sargent Irrigation District; and the Loup Basin Reclamation District, in…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1113 introduced, by the gentleman from California (Mr. Ose), addresses issues associated with water management, flood control, drainage and subsistence occurring within the multicounty Colusa Basin in California. The bill…
Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4226 was introduced by our esteemed colleague, the gentleman from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). This legislation would allow the Forest Service to consolidate and upgrade several administrative sites in the Black Hills…
I would like to invite the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), as this bill passes and the restoration projects begin, to take a canoe trip down one of the more beautiful tidal estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay, the Pocomoke River, the…
we rise here today to say good-bye to Congressman Herb Bateman, and to extend the depths of our condolences to Mrs. Bateman and to his family. Mr. Bateman was known around here, the House floor, simply as Herb. He was a quiet statesman. I…
Mr. Speaker, just to reiterate what the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) said, we are also collectively, as a body, proud of the Coast Guard blue. I say to the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), my daughter, when she was 15…
Mr. Speaker, August 4 will mark the 210th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard. Since 1790, the men and women of the Coast Guard have demonstrated that they are always ready, Semper Paratus, to carry out their critical duties. Today's Coast…
When we consider the size of the United States, the diversity of this great Nation, the range of our population and the configuration of the potential danger throughout the world, the United States above all countries should have the kind…
The Corps found that the benefit for the straightening is based solely upon time saving. It is not economically justified. And the Corps' findings go on to say, ``Based on our information, general funding for this purpose,'' straightening…
I do not think it really makes a difference whose district the Tolchester Channel is in. It happens to be in my district, though, and I will show my colleagues on the map. Not the district of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Ehrlich) and…
There has been no environmental impact statement done on this particular project. I have talked to the Corps of Engineers from Baltimore City, along with the Coast Guard, along with numerous other people involved in this in Chestertown…
I am not only concerned about the Chesapeake Bay; I want to get involved in doing something about the Chesapeake Bay. Just speaking words does not have an impact on the ground. And as far as that letter was concerned, once we evaluated the…
But I feel there is a point at which the study finally does come to an end, because it cannot be proven. For example, the cost-benefit analysis which justifies the Corps continuing the project must show that there is a benefit to the…
I am not about to insult the Corps of Engineers, I am not about to insult anybody. But we as Members of Congress have the responsibility of oversight of all Federal agencies. When we see some peculiar numbers in Federal agencies that are…
I have come full circle in realizing that not only is this project bad environmentally, not only because of the dredge material and where it is going to be disposed of, but because of the ground water and the aquifers when we deepen this…
the other problem with this, it is a much broader issue than the Sandy Canal or a safety concern for the Tolchester area. The whole northern route that would be dredged by my colleagues would involve 18 million cubic yards of dredge…
my amendment would decrease the Corps of Engineers' operations and maintenance account by $6,801,000 for the Tolchester S-turn straightening project in my district. Mr. Chairman, similar to the amendment that we debated just a few minutes…
Mr. Chairman, I will make a comment about the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey supporting this project. There are numerous agencies within each of those States, and the State of Delaware has a problem with this dredging from…
Mr. Chairman, in our closing comments, when we look at each issue of dredging or straightening or deepening one at a time, it is not an environmental problem. When we take the cumulative impact of all of these projects throughout the…
Mr. Chairman, this project was approved by Congress even though the Corps said in their analysis it did not rise to the cost benefit analysis that was necessary to do a project like this. But, nevertheless, this has been approved by…
I would urge the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Knollenberg), this is not a sleight-of-hand. This is not a maneuver to allow this President to implement anything in Kyoto. This is a provision that the entire executive branch, whether it is…
I would like to work on legislation to change the threshold of the requirements to designate something wilderness. The gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen) had an eastern wilderness bill that was percolating through legislation that would have…
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