Secretarial Powers Under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976: Excessive Use of Section 204 Withdrawal Authority by the Clinton Administration : Joint Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands and Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, March 23, 1999, Washington, DC.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 174 pages |
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Page 123 - States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 146 - ... objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and...
Page 149 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 134 - That the President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry any of the public lands of the United States including the District of Alaska and reserve the same for waterpower sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be specified in the orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.
Page 160 - Thus the general substantive policy of the Act is a flexible one. It leaves room for a responsible exercise of discretion and may not require particular substantive results in particular problematic instances. However, the Act also contains very important "procedural...
Page 160 - NEPA's procedural requirements the only role for a court is to insure that the agency has considered the environmental consequences; it cannot 'interject itself within the area of discretion of the executive as to the choice of the action to be taken.
Page 149 - Is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Page 156 - Withdrawal means withholding an area of Federal land from settlement, sale, location, or entry under some or all of the general land laws, for the purpose of limiting activities under those laws in order to maintain other public values in the area or reserving the area for a particular public purpose or program; or transferring jurisdiction over an area of Federal land, other than property...
Page 144 - ... confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected...
Page 130 - And provided further, That this act shall not be construed as a recognition, abridgment, or enlargement of any asserted rights or claims initiated upon any oil or gas bearing lands after any withdrawal of such lands made prior to the passage of this act...