On 12/4/11, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
P.S. -
For almost four decades, U.S. citizens, through their elected representatives, enacted and preserved NEPA to assure that our valuable common federal resources are managed efficiently and wisely. NEPA, in part, has successfully resisting attempts to gut or repeal it, in part, because of the ``silent majority's'' knowledge that our federal resources need to be professional administered for maximum long-term yield and need to be protected from local pressures to develop our resources for short-visioned and short-term greed. It is not a question of what local Utah citizens' feel is the prevailing political will. It is a question of what is best for the nation's interests from a professional planning and administration viewpoint.
There's the battle you have to fight, folks, and it's open to a wide range of interpretation. Even the meaning of the words "short term" and "the nation's best interests" can be bandied by lawyers for decades. Thanks, Kurt.