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On the recordJuly 21, 1998
I think there is public land owned in America, yes, that should go back. It would be better served in local communities' ownership, local, State government, yes. I think the Federal Government should not own 40 percent of America. I think we own too much land, and we have been accumulating it for decades, and that is a policy that should change.
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Discussing the issue of federal land ownership in America.

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