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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Natural Resources Committee, Chairman Doc
Hastings 5/17/11
***MEDIA
ADVISORY***
Subcommittee to Hold Oversight Hearing on
the Obama Administration’s Wild Lands Policy
WASHINGTON D.C. –
On Tuesday, May 24th the
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and
Public Lands will hold an oversight hearing
titled “Secretarial Order 3310, ‘Wild
Lands.’”
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WHAT: |
Subcommittee on National Parks,
Forests and Public Lands
Oversight Hearing on:
“Secretarial Order 3310, ‘Wild
Lands.’”
Witnesses:
To be announced.
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WHEN: |
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
9:00 A.M.
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WHERE: |
1324 Longworth House Office Building
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Background
In
December 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken
Salazar announced Secretarial Order 3310
directing the Bureau of Land Management to
designate areas with wilderness
characteristics as “wild lands.” In a move
by the Obama Administration to circumvent
Congress’s sole authority to allocate
Wilderness areas, this order could place a
vast amount of public land off-limits to
energy production, recreational use and
other job-creating activities. H.R. 1473,
the 2011 Continuing Resolution that funds
the federal government through FY2011,
included provisions to prevent the Interior
Department from using funds to implement the
Wild Lands order.
Visit the
Committee Hearings webpage for testimony
and additional information, once it is made
available. The hearing is open to the
public and a live stream will be broadcast
at
http://naturalresources.house.gov/live.
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