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HJM011........................................by RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
AMERICAN HERITAGE RIVERS - Memorializing Congress to oppose the designation
of any river, watershed or river segment within the state of Idaho as an
American Heritage River.
02/12 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/13 Rpt prt - to Res/Con
02/20 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/23 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/26 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 61-7-2
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bivens, Black(15),
Black(23), Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Clark, Crow, Cuddy, Deal,
Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould,
Hadley, Hornbeck, Jones(9), Jones(22), Jones(20), Judd, Kellogg,
Kempton, Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader,
McKague, Meyer, Miller, Mortensen, Newcomb, Pischner, Pomeroy,
Reynolds, Richman, Ridinger, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson, Stoicheff,
Stone, Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson, Wheeler, Wood,
Zimmermann, Mr Speaker
NAYS -- Bieter, Boe, Chase, Henbest, Jaquet, Marley, Robison
Absent and excused -- Crane, Hansen
Floor Sponsors - Simpson, Barrett, Wood
Title apvd - to Senate
02/27 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Env
HJM011|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session - 1998IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 11 BY RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE 1 A JOINT MEMORIAL 2 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS 3 ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF 4 IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 5 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the 6 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-fourth 7 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that: 8 WHEREAS, the Council on Environmental Quality published in the Federal 9 Register of May 19, 1997, pages 27253-27256, the intention of the administra- 10 tion to designate ten rivers per year as American Heritage Rivers; and 11 WHEREAS, in 1996 Congress defeated an attempt to legislatively create a 12 "National Heritage Areas Partnership Program"; and 13 WHEREAS, Presidential Executive Order No. 13061 signed September 11, 1997, 14 launched the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, without Congressional con- 15 sideration; and 16 WHEREAS, 63% of the state of Idaho is under federal land management and 17 designation of additional areas for federal involvement in land use management 18 would be unduly restrictive; and 19 WHEREAS, the initiative redefines communities, watersheds and jurisdic- 20 tional boundaries and there is no guarantee that private property owners will 21 be included in any decisions that would affect private property; and 22 WHEREAS, the increase in federal bureaucracy and the de facto shift of 23 control over water from the states to the federal government would establish 24 the federal government as the ultimate authority in river protections; and 25 WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho have continually demonstrated they can work 26 together to strike a balance between protecting their rivers and using them as 27 valuable economic resources; and 28 WHEREAS, a letter submitted September 23, 1997, by Senator Larry Craig, 29 Senator Dirk Kempthorn, Congressman Mike Crapo and Congresswoman Helen 30 Chenoweth to Kathleen A. McGinty, Chair, Council on Environmental Quality, 31 requested that no rivers in Idaho be designated as American Heritage Rivers; 32 and 33 WHEREAS, the Idaho Conservation League and the Clearwater Biodiversity 34 Project subsequently submitted Idaho's Clearwater River in nomination December 35 18, 1997. 36 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses- 37 sion of the Fifty-fourth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and 38 the Senate concurring therein, that the Idaho Legislature is opposed to desig- 39 nation of any river, watershed, or river segment within the boundaries of the 40 state of Idaho as an American Heritage River and supports the request made by 41 Idaho's congressional delegation to withdraw Idaho from the initiative proc- 42 ess. 43 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa- 44 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this 2 1 Memorial to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre- 2 sentatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the 3 State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 07922
This Joint Memorial represents opposition to designation of any
river, watershed, or river segment within the boundaries of the State
of Idaho as an American Heritage River. Expresses support for Idaho's
congressional delegation request to withdraw Idaho from the initiative
process.
FISCAL NOTE
There is no fiscal impact to the General Fund
CONTACT: Representative Michael Simpson
Representative Lenore Hardy Barrett
Representative JoAn E Wood
332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE
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