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Bruce F. Vento: “Mr. Chairman, the fact is when this was taken to court, the Secretary was forbidden to use his discretion. He said that…”

On the recordJune 20, 1996
Mr. Chairman, the fact is when this was taken to court, the Secretary was forbidden to use his discretion. He said that this waiver, he could not apply any of these standards, and his attorneys, the attorneys for both the Secretary of Interior and Agriculture, advised them, unless they wanted to go to jail, that they had better meet the volume numbers and the prescriptions of these salvage sales. The fact is that they tried. That is, Secretary Babbitt and Secretary Glickman both made extraordinary efforts to the point that they were being criticized in some of those hearings as not complying with the timber rider.
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Bruce F. Vento
Minnesota
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the legal challenges faced by the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture regarding timber sales.

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