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HJM014..............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
INTERIOR COLUMBIA BASIN ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT PROJECT - Requesting Congress
to terminate the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project;
requesting that scientific information be communicated to personnel of the
Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service; and expressing support
for natural resource planning featuring site-specific environmental
management decisions made by local decision-makers, citizens and others
directly affected by the management decisions.
02/20 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/23 Rpt prt - to Res/Con
02/26 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/27 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/03 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 67-0-3
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Bivens,
Black(15), Black(23), Boe, Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase,
Clark, Crane, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13),
Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hadley, Hansen, Henbest, Hornbeck,
Jaquet, Jones(9), Jones(22), Jones(20), Judd, Kellogg, Kempton,
Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley,
McKague, Meyer, Miller, Mortensen, Newcomb, Pischner, Pomeroy,
Reynolds, Richman, Ridinger, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson, Stoicheff,
Stone, Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson, Wood,
Zimmermann
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Robison, Wheeler, Mr Speaker
Floor Sponsors - Cuddy, Mader
Title apvd - to Senate
03/04 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Res/Env
03/19 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 10th Ord
03/20 10th ord - ADOPTED, voice vote
Title apvd - to House
03/23 To enrol - rpt enrol - Sp signed
Pres signed - to Secretary of State
HJM014|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session - 1998IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 14 BY REVENUE AND TAXATION 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 United States Department of Agriculture, in concert with the 9 United States Department of the Interior, has been actively involved for the 10 last three and one-half years in the promulgation of a $35-40 million dollar 11 land management project involving virtually all of the Northwestern States, 12 named the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP); and 13 WHEREAS, ICBEMP has not been properly authorized by the United States Con- 14 gress, nor coordinated with the state of Idaho, notwithstanding the inevitable 15 involvement of intermingled state and private lands; and 16 WHEREAS, representatives of a number of federal wildlife, natural resource 17 and land management agencies have been engaged in the preparation of an ICBEMP 18 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) without sufficient regard to or 19 consideration of state concerns and interests; and 20 WHEREAS, there is no definitive description of an ecosystem or ecosystem 21 management contained in the ICBEMP DEIS as drafted, and associated documents; 22 and 23 WHEREAS, implementation of ICBEMP will have major impacts on the manage- 24 ment of federal lands and therefore major impacts on the counties of this 25 state including a reduction in human economic use of public lands, delays in 26 land use decision-making and new restrictions on both commodity and 27 noncommodity public land outputs, including recreation; and 28 WHEREAS, the preferred alternative in the DEIS, while supposedly designed 29 to aggressively restore ecosystems and support people, in reality focuses on 30 ecosystem protection to be achieved by minimizing human impacts to the envi- 31 ronment; and 32 WHEREAS, the DEIS's Desired Range of Future Conditions reflect the per- 33 sonal values of its authors and are not necessarily based on sound scientific 34 information; and 35 WHEREAS, ecological considerations have been given more weight than pro- 36 viding predictable levels of goods and services from federal lands while pro- 37 cedures and standards for measurement have not been developed for ecosystem 38 health and ecological integrity; and 39 WHEREAS, the ICBEMP DEIS fails to explicitly identify the economic or 40 social needs of people, cultures, and communities in the Columbia River Basin 41 as they pertain to federal lands and fails to define sustainable and 42 predictable levels of products and services from U.S. Forest Service and 43 Bureau of Land Management lands; and 44 WHEREAS, the DEIS contains no significant legal justification for shifting 2 1 to ecosystem based management while at the same time nullifying the many years 2 of cooperative effort contained in existing land management plans. 3 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses- 4 sion of the Fifty-fourth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and 5 the Senate concurring therein, that we urgently request the Congress of the 6 United States to take action immediately to terminate the Interior Columbia 7 Basin Ecosystem Management Project with no Record of Decision being approved. 8 We request that all funding enabling further action toward the implementation 9 be terminated and withdrawn from all federal agencies involved. All valid sci- 10 ence based information developed by this project should be communicated to BLM 11 district managers and National Forest supervisors for consideration of public 12 input in statutorily scheduled environmental land and resource management plan 13 revisions. 14 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the Second Regular Session of 15 the Fifty-fourth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and the Sen- 16 ate concurring therein, strongly support natural resource planning and envi- 17 ronmental management featuring site-specific management decisions made by 18 local decision-makers, local citizenry and parties directly and personally 19 affected by environmental land and resource management decisions. 20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa- 21 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this 22 Memorial to the Secretary of the United States Department of Interior, to the 23 Chief of the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, to 24 the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of 25 Congress, and the congressional delegation representing the state of Idaho in 26 the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 08121
The purpose of this legislation is to notify the
administration and the Congress of the United States that we do
not agree with the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem management
project and it is our desire they discontinue this proposal.
FISCAL NOTE
No negative fiscal impact.
CONTACT: Rep Charles Cuddy
Phone 332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE
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