Rep. Bishop claims that the PLI designates 4.6 million acres of public land 'for conservation,' when in fact the PLI substitutes weakened 'national conservation areas' (NCAs) and 'special management areas' for landscapes deserving of wilderness protection.
Bishop's claim about conservation in the PLI is challenged as misleading.
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state management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system
I want to remind him that OCS revenues provide 100 percent of the funding for the LWCF, as well as significant revenues to the Gulf of Mexico coastal states for coastal restoration.
I think many of those local fisheries on the coast would have some quibbling with your jurisdictional approach.
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