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5 -wmq was hn x OTHER NEWS Interior Secretary-designat~ Williaill,_~~lark on Oct. 25 met lead- ers of key environmental groups and told tnem he hoped he would be able to settle out-of-court many of the law suits that the environmental Or- x x WRf' 6 <". ~ ganizations have filed against the actions taken by outgoing Interior Secretary James G. Watt since the spring of 1981. Clark also asked them for their list of priorities relative to items up for decision at the Interior oepartment. Clark's confirmation hearings are to be held on Nov. 1,2 and possibly NOV. 3 in the Senate Enerqy committee. (see J.ast \-7ee1< s WRW.-I J<EPO~TED OUT, The Senate Agriculture Committee on Oct. 19 repot:ted bill" (S 663) by Sen. William L. A!:'mstrong to the Sena te the "sodbuster' s co-sponsored by R-Colo., and/about one-third of the Senate. The bill was reported with an amendment by Sen. Alan J. Dixon, D-Ill. As introduced, the A!:'mstronq bill would have withheld price supPor~ and other federal farm assistance from a land owner who plows up highly erodible land and plants it in crops, but its application was limited to the highly erodible land. The Dixon amendment broadened the bill to deny fede!:'al assistance to a land Owner who plows up highly erodible land to plant in wheat, for example, to cover all other land in his ownership that he plants in wheat. So the American Farm Bureau Federation and several other farm organizatiohs Plan to oppose the bill, as amended. amendment to restore the bill to its XXI, #28, dated 7-14-83.) The Conservation Subcommittee of Armstrong plans to propose a floor Or iginal int"mt" (See WRW, Series the HOuse Aqriculture Committee on Oct. 26 marked up and reported out a bill (HR 3050) by its Chairman, Rep. Ed Jones, D-Tenn., to assure the long-term viability of the Rural Electrification Administration revolving fund for rural cooperatives. (See WRW, Series XXI, #33, dated 8-18-83.) Jack ~. Stonehocker took over the first of the month as director of the Colorado River Commission of Nevada. He had been the deputy to Duane R. Sudweeksr who had held the by the state is interpreted as an effort/to beef OOPS~ Last week's WRW dropped post for a.couple.of yeQrs.The move ~ssues ~nvo~v~ng Ene up Nevada's role on/Colorado River. a line in failinq to identify wil- liam R. Gianelli as director of California's Department of "Tater Resour-' C2S during the late 1960's when the Eel River flood control project was shelved by then-GOV. Ronald Reaqan, R-calif., with ir~~t from william P. Clark, then the governor's chief of staff. (See last week's WRW.)-HCM-