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Gerald Ford: “S. 391 is also littered with many other provisions which would insert so many rigidities, complications, and burdensome…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1976
S. 391 is also littered with many other provisions which would insert so many rigidities, complications, and burdensome regulations into Federal leasing procedures that it would inhibit coal production on Federal lands.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Veto of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Bill

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