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Doc Hastings: “If the gentleman remembers, because he was in a committee hearing, under direct questioning, I think it was Director…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2011
If the gentleman remembers, because he was in a committee hearing, under direct questioning, I think it was Director Abbey said that there is no authority to make any designation under law of wild lands because that was a made-up term. There's no designation. Can they inventory? Yes. Nobody argues with that. But you can't make up administratively a new designation, and that's what the issue was. And he testified that he had no authority to do that.
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Jul 27, 2011

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