Cynthia Lummis

This year, the Land and Water Conservation Fund expired in its authorization on September 30. In October, we began reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund and reforming it to get it back to its original intent. And before we…

And so will they have links or ways to plus into your product so people can have access to their product?

Local and State travel and tourism officials tell us they have had difficulty working with Recreation.gov, and that is a big part of Wyoming's economy.

Will there be any type of gap between when Active Network's contract ends and when the Booz Allen provided service comes online?

We want, as recreation is accessed online, to make it as easy as possible for people to use public lands.

So you have information that is tremendously valuable to visitors to our public lands.

I understand. I have been in your shoes.

What sort of off-the-shelf products or existing technologies were part of the RFP process that you chose against because they didn't have features that you were looking for?

Congress could really help to ensure that early-and-often public engagement, through collaborative processes to find that balance.

I am very troubled by this notion of diminishing the role of counties, that somehow county boundaries do not matter or somehow hinder landscape-scale planning.

To follow on the last line of questioning about centralization of decisionmaking--Mr. Obermueller, if field managers and state directors are removed from the rule as the specific go-to people with direct responsibility for drafting and…

I have been a little concerned about how multiple use is being interpreted.

I'm hopeful that your wise admonitions and advice will change the way the Endangered Species Act is used in the future so species recovery is paramount to other considerations.

I think that if the Fish and Wildlife Service truly wants to recover species, they need to tell us what they want or let the States and local governments figure out what they want so that they can manage for it.

Congresswoman Lummis, definitely the conservation ethic has changed at the local level.

Madam Chair, I yield back my time.

Will the Agency provide a timeline for when future development occurs for the elements a species needs in critical habitat?

Could an adverse modification be used to stop stream diversions because the water is needed in a downstream critical habitat for a fish?

My biggest concern is the part that habitat could develop at some undetermined time in the future.

I want to focus my questions on the rule allowing for critical habitat designation if the land merely has the potential to develop primary constituent elements.

You know, the gentleman's time has expired.

The aggregate result is broad-sweeping changes with minimal input from the American public.

Bottom line, these sweeping policies will require more Federal permitting that is already bogged down in bureaucratic processes.

These new rules could significantly alter activities in areas newly proposed or already designated as critical habitat.

We need a 21st century conservation ethic that is consistent with the movement that the American people have made in their understanding of sound and replicatable science.