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. . Page 5 WRW washn x x x year OTHER RESOURCE NEWS SEN. GRAHAM'S 1994 TIMETABLE FOR CLEAN WATER BILL: Here is the timetable that Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Clean Water Subcommittee of the Senate Environment Committee, has laid out for Senate passage of a new Clean Water bill this year: The new version of the bill introduced this week to be marked up by Subcommittee by about Feb. 15. The Senate Environment Committee to approve it by the end of February. It is to be ready to go to the Senate for act ion by June. His panel's 1993 hearings on Clean Water have just been published. NEW NRC RANGELAND REPORT: A report on rangeland health detailing new methods to classify, inventory and monitor rangelands has been put out by the Committee on Rangeland Classification of the Board of Agri- culture of the National Research Council. Committee Chairman F. E. "Fee" Busby of Morrilton, Ark., said before decisions are made on how to use rangeland, an assessment of the land's health is vital. "Right now, we're making many of those decisions without really having a handle on the health of the land. If we knew that the integrity of the soil and ecological processes were being sustained, then we could make better decisions about how, when, and how much of the land should be used," Busby said in the preface. Copies of the 1994 NRC report on "Rangeland Health" can be obtained for $30 including shipping charges by calling NRC at 202-334-3313. HALL AND PITTS BECOME PARTNERS IN LOVELAND ENGINEERING FIRM: The pitts engineering firm in Loveland, Colo., has become Hall, pitts & Associates, Consulting Engineers. Joe Hall became a partner in the firm late last year after he retired July 1 as Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Denver office of the Bureau of Reclamation. The firm is located at 535 North Garfield Avenue, Loveland, CO., 80537; (303) 667-8690. NEW REC REFORM REGS AND EIS: The Bureau of Reclamation announced on Jan. 10 it plans to propose and put into effect new rules and regula- tions to implement the 1982 Reclamation Reform Act (RRA; P.L. 97-293). It will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on RRA that will address such subjects as water conservation, environmental restoration and tiered pricing. Scoping meetings have been goin~ on in the West since the middle of January to determine the extent of the EIS. "The Bureau will address a lot more issues than acreage limitations" in implementing RRA, a Capitol Hill staffer told WRW this past week. WAIT FOR GRAZING HEARING: No action will be taken by the Clinton Administration on its new grazing proposals until after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has had a chance to held hearings on them "in late spring or early summer," President Clinton wrote Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., on Jan. 5. Domemici released the letter on Jan. 12 claiming the Administration had made "a major and very wise policy reversal" in waiting for Congressional hearings prior to releasing the new regulations because Interior Secretary Babbitt earlier had planned to put out the regulations in the spring of 1994. There is no indication Congress will act on this highly emotional issue this election year after the Administration and Congress deadlocked over it last year. FIRST YEAR OF DOl UNDER CLINTON: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and staff have put out a 22-page report on the accomplishments of the Clinton Administration at the Interior Department during 1993. Undoubt- edly the most important historically will be the emphasis that Babbitt has put on considering endangered species and other programs by eco- system and his efforts at land reform. -HCM-WRW-30-