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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2D. 1063
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Congress Considers Measure To Update Public Land Laws
WASHINGTON (CO) - Con-
gre,ss presently is considering
a measure designed to bring up
to c ate public land laws of horse
and buggy vintage.
There are now 50 major laws
on the statute books relative to
the management of 770,796,843
acres of federal land holdings
in the United States. This is
33.9 per cent of the 11 Western
states and Alaska.
John A. Carver Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Interior for Public
Land Management, has called
many of the public land laws on
the statute books "either dead
letters, or they ought to be."
At the same time he has said
rapidly changing conditions in
this country have brought
about "gaps" in present public
land statutes which call for
new legislation from Congress.
The need for public land re
form is considered to be both
immediate and urgent by the
Interior Department because of
the rapidly increasing pressures
on public land resulting from
the population explosion now
going on in the Western states
and because of increasing com
petition among conflicting users
of public land. Commercial
users and conservationist
groups, which often held div
ergent views on public land pro
grams, strongly back public
land reform.
Public Land Commission
The House Public Lands Sub
committee is currently in the
process of "marking up" or re
vising legislation to establish
a 19 - members Public Land
Law Review Commission to
study existing public land laws
and procedures and to make
recommendations on moderni
zing and improving them.
Such legislation has been in
troduced by Chairman Wayne
N. As p i n a 1 1, D-Colo., of the
House Interior and Insular Af
fairs Committee and by Reps.
Walter S. Baring, D-Nev., John
H. Kyi, R-Iowa, and Morris K. 1
Udall, D-Ariz. !
The commission proposal is
patterned after the 15-membcr
Outdoor Recreation Resources
Review Commission authorized
in 1938 by Congress to make an
inventory of the nation's out-1
door recreation resources and
needs and to make recommend-1
ations for meeting such needs
in the foreseeable future. The
report filed by ORRRC in 1S61
led to the establishment of the
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
in the Interior Department in
19G2 and to the Administration
proposal now before Congress
to establish a land conservation
fund to pay for new public rec
reation areas and facilities.
Because public land laws are
so complex, sponsors of the
public land law review coinmis
sion proposals believe the com
mission approach would provide ,
the best method of identifying
the problems and recommending
statutory solutions to them. i
Hearings on the proposals
were held by the House Public
Lands Subcommittee on Sept.
9-10 and on Oct. 3-4.
Most Pressing Needs
These hearings identified
areas where there is the most
pressing need for new legisla-;
lion. The natural growth of
many communities in the South
west is being hampered because
the communities are entirely
surrounded by federal land hold
ings. Hep. Udall said, "a ra-,
tional workable means of get-1
ting land into state ownership
and private ownership" must
be found to meet the needs "in
these heavily populated areas
that are gruwing so fast."
Bernard L. Orell, chairman
of the committee on forest man
agement of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association, who
was a member of the OHHHC
Commission, strongly backed up
suggestions of the Interior and
Agriculture Departments that
some solution must be found
to "checkerboarded" land,
where federal, state and private
holdings are intermingled in
many Western and Southern
states.
Other problems include:
The trend toward separating
surface rights from subsurface
rights on public lands:
Difficulties relative to obtain
ing casements and rights-of-way
across federally - held land:
The increasing use of the pub
lic domain for recreation and
the inability of the Bureau of
Land Management to cope with
the problem because of lack of
statutory authority to provide
recreation and sanitary facili
ties on the public domain:
Lack of a definite public pol
icy on the type of federal lands
to retain in federal ownership ; the objectives of the bills to
and the type to transfer to state I establish the so called "PLLRC"
or private ownership. I Commission. Daniel A. Poole,
There was widespread support ' director of conservation of the
expressed in the hearings for I Wildlife Management Institute,
summed up the views of con
servationist and commercial
users alike when he stated:
"Revision of the public land
laws . . . would be a complex
and time consuming under
taking. But such revision is ab
solutely necessary . . . The pres
ent patchwork of outmoded and
vague laws are a confusion and
frustration ... to the Congress,
to the public and to the admin
istering agencies.
(Copyright 1963, Congressional
Quarterly, Inc.)
Ashlander Injured As Car Hits Pole 1
ASHLAND Gary Clinton .Way at 11:20 p.m. when he ap-
Winner, 18, of 510 Wimer St.,
was injured late Sunday night
when his car struck a steel
light pole in Lithia Park.
Ashland police said Winner
parently lost control of his car
at the intersection with Nutley
St. and skidded into the pole.
Winner was taken by ambu
lance to Ashland Community
was southbound on Winburn ' Hospital for treatment.
HOMICIDE PROBED
PORTLAND (UPI) - Polica
said Monday they were investi
gating the possibility of homi?
cide in the death of John Pihu
lake, 37, Portland, whose body
was found in his parked car Sat
urday.
Gina Lollobrigida
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