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On the recordJune 10, 1994
Reclaiming my time, we have accommodated the corridor between Twenty-nine Palms and Fort Irwin in this legislation. We have taken other areas and placed them in the wilderness study rather than in the wilderness designation, so if there are further withdrawals, some of those withdrawals would have to come before Congress, being over 5,000 acres under the Engle Act and the bill when we finally conclude it based on the amendments that we have agreed to, that is, by the gentleman from California, Mr. Farr, myself and others, will, in fact, deal with the concerns that the military has raised.
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Bruce F. Vento
Minnesota
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Discussing legislation related to military land use and wilderness study areas.

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