On the recordApril 17, 2012
This legislation, if it were enacted--and mercifully it won't be--would enable some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. to trump the decisions of local land managers to try and protect, for example, in condition of high fire hazard. We saw forest fires in Colorado started by recreational target shooting. Now, of course our friends on the other side of the aisle aren't concerned about increased global warming, increased drought, extreme weather conditions; but for heavens sakes, taking away the ability of the local managers to be good stewards of the land, to take away the authority of the EPA to ever deal with appropriate regulations on things like lead is just silly. It's not appropriate, it's not good policy, and it's part of an effort to obscure the real efforts that are under way, and that has to do with being able to weasel this Republican budget legislation through with as little public scrutiny as possible. I strongly urge rejection of the rule.
