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On the recordSeptember 8, 1999
For fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to lands within the National Forest Service and the Secretary of the Interior with respect to lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, shall use the best available scientific and commercial data in amending or revising resource management plans for offering sales, issuing leases, or otherwise authorizing or undertaking management activities on lands under their respective jurisdictions provided that the Secretaries may at their discretion determine whether any information concerning wildlife resources shall be collected prior to approving any such plan, sale, lease, or other activity and, if so, the type of collection procedures for such information. It seems to me there are fundamentally three subjects involved in section 329.
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T. Gorton
Republican · Washington

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Discussing the Robb amendment related to resource management plans for national lands.

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