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Z03 -=f'1 <br />781 P13 NAR 31 °93 !0:53 <br />The bills would not supersede laws such as the Endangered Species Act and the <br />National Environmental PolicyAct. They would encourage agencies to place more <br />emphasis on biodiversity when developing land management plans and could lead <br />to the simultaneous preservation of everything from the northern spotted owl to <br />the Pacific yew within an ecosystem. <br />Opponents say the bills would lead to more land being placed off limits. "The <br />economic impact on taxpayers and the overall U.S. economy would be severe, " <br />David Ford, a vice president of the National Forest Products Association, said. <br />e EPA to add ESA as another layer to developing regulations. <br />From EPA Staff Urae New Policy to Protegt Endangered Species in Rea <br />Development,, Inside-EPA, Sept. 6. 1991 <br />Agency sources say pending and potential lawsuits are a key factor driving the <br />call for a policy to develop mandatory minimum procedures for considering the <br />Impacts of its regulation on endangered species. This raises the possibility that <br />a whole new layer of environmental concern could be added during the <br />development of regulations. <br />The issue was put forth by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in a letter to <br />EPA's William Reilly and Interior's Manuel Lujan. The Fund argued that the <br />Agency failed to get written concurrence from the Fish and Wildlife Service when <br />setting Clean Water Act discharge limits for a form of dioxin into the Columbia <br />River basin... which could harm endangered species. <br />• The judiciary is managing the land. <br />From: Expanded.lud cial Role:naaing the Land. New York 7imes. May 1, 1991 <br />Last year 540 legal challenges were made to the Forest Service's timber - selling <br />program nationwide - a record, more than doubling the previous year's 234 <br />appeals. <br />A plan to shoot 25 bison in Yellowstone National Park as pan of a test on <br />disease was halted after a judge in Washington, D. C. issued a restraining order. <br />Under possible threat of judicial order, Federal dams on the Columbia River are <br />drawing down their water this spring to have save endangered salmon, which <br />need a strong current to help them migrate. <br />Environmentalists say there are more than enough laws to protect land and <br />wildlife: what is lacking, they say, is enforcement of those laws. The higher the <br />economic cost, the more likely it is that the cases will end up in court. <br />-10- <br />