BOARD01764

• Board Meeting Date: 2/16/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. BARNARD, JR.: "1 don't know how deeply the Board wants to
go into the various occurrences since the legis-
lation was originally introduced. Up to the time
of this memorandum, the history as mentioned -
that is, the fact that it was introduced two Con-
gresses ago and most of the hearings were in the
85th Congress - the current version of the Wilder-
ness legislation that is before the Senate In-
terior Committee is S. 1123, which is the repro-
duced Bill. However, since it was introduced,
several of the Senators who generally favor the
measure have made substantial revisions result-
ing in a document entitled 'Confidential Com-
mittee Print No.3' which does amend the original
bill very materially. In addition, however, to
the amendments that are reflected by Committee
Print No.3, there have been proposed, I think,
57 other amendments to the Bill, some of which
are duplications. There have been two alterna-
tive measures proposed to the committee.

Of all the amendments and the various prints
that are before the committee, the only amend-
ments which have been formally adopted - the
only amendment I should say - is one highly tech-
nical language amendment which was formally
adopted and which was written into Committee
Print No.3.

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Since the time of this original memorandum
that I prepared, I have written three additional
memoranda concerning the legislation as it would
be amended by Committee Print No.2 and Committee
Print No.3. Then to complicate matters even a
little further, and I think fortunately so, Sena-
tor O'Mahoney yesterday, at the Executive Session,
left his sick bed and was wheeled into the com-
mittee room to present to the committee another
alternative measure which would include the ef-
fect of the most important of the so-called
'Allott Amendments' and some other amendments
that had been proposed. The most important
feature of the O'Mahoney bill was in reducing
the effect of the legislation in this respect:
under the legislation as it was introduced and
as it still exists, wilderness areas would be
blanketed in (wild and wilderness areas) and
other areas could be designated by the adminis-
trator having charge of the lands involved and
they would become part of the wilderness system
with all the Congressional protection it is af-
forded if Congress didn't veto the establishment.