From:                              John (Jack) R. Venrick [[email-masked]]

Sent:                               Sunday, November 14, 2010 8:57 PM

To:                                   AJack R. Venrick

Subject:                          National Ocean Council-Executive Order, and CLEAR act (stop it
now!)

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:23 PM

Subject: Re: [Capr-announce] [capr-gov] FW: National Ocean
Council-Executive Order, and CLEAR act (stop it now!)

This
is just like the garbage we are seeing at the local level from our current
county commissioners and at the State level. Everything is written in glorious
good sounding ambiguity with enough lack of definition to allow the appointed
commissions carte blanche when it comes to creating and enforcing regulations.

Just
DAMN!

Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:28 AM

Subject: Re: [Capr-announce] [capr-gov] FW: National Ocean Council
-Executive Order, and CLEAR act (stop it now!)

CLEAR
passed the House on Friday.

From: capr-gov-bounces+gaelwolf=[email-masked]
[mailto:capr-gov-bounces+gaelwolf=[email-masked]] On Behalf
Of Rodney McFarland

Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 8:59 AM

To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]

Subject: [capr-gov] FW: National Ocean Council - Executive Order, and
CLEAR act (stop it now!)

From:

Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:21 AM

To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]

Subject: National Ocean Council - Executive Order, and CLEAR act (stop
it now!)

FYI, please read the article
below.  If I’m reading this correctly, we can partially block this
executive order (prevent it’s stealth “ratification”) by
stopping the CLEAR act (HR 3534), and by using techniques like coordination at
the local and state level to block implementation.  ACTION:  Please call
the capital switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask for your Congressmen, and tell
them to vote NO on the CLEAR Act.  Call your Senators too, to warn them
against it in advance.

Info on the CLEAR act:
HR 3534 in the House, called The Consolidated Land, Energy, And Aquatic
Resources Act of 2010 otherwise known as the Clear Act.  See attachment
from American Land Rights for details and talking points to call your
Congressmen and Senators (also appended below, in case attachment is lost).

The executive order:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes

Two versions of the article: http://www.infowars.com/national-ocean-council/
or  http://www.morphcity.com/home/79-national-ocean-council

Scott Shock

Vice President

Citizens’ Alliance for
Property Rights

www.capr.us

[email-masked]

206-650-3421

P.S. Sorry if this is a
duplicate for you, my first mailing of this message seems to have been
“lost” in cyberspace.

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National Ocean Council Published on 07-28-2010

By Cassandra Anderson - BLN Contributing Writer

Thirty states
will be encroached upon by Obama's Executive Order establishing the National
Ocean Council for control over America's oceans, coastlines and the Great
Lakes. Under this new council, states' coastal jurisdictions will be subject to
the United Nations' Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST) in this UN Agenda 21 program.
America'a oceans and coastlines will be broken into 9 regions that include the
North East, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, the Gulf Coast, West Coast, the Great
Lakes, Alaska, the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii) and the Caribbean.

Because of the decades of difficulty that the collectivists have had trying to
ratify the Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST), Obama is sneaking it in through the back
door, by way of this Executive Order establishing the Council. Because LOST is
a treaty, Obama's Executive Order is not Constitutional as treaty ratification
requires 2/3 approval from the Senate. Michael Shaw said that the Agenda 21
Convention on Biodiversity treaty of 1992 failed to pass Congress so it was
executed through soft law and administratively on local levels, and Obama's
Executive Order is a similar soft law tactic to enact the LOST treaty.

In fact, our Constitutional form of government is being completely destroyed
because buried in the CLEAR Act (HR 3534) there is a provision for a new
council to oversee the outer continental shelf- it appears that this Regional
Outer Shelf Council will be part of the National Ocean Council. This means that
if Congress makes the CLEAR Act into law, then the implementation of the
UN Law Of Sea Treaty, as part of the National Ocean Council's agenda, will be
"ratified" in a convoluted and stealth manner, in full opposition to
the Constitution and its intent.

The excuse for this extreme action is because of the emergency in the Gulf of
Mexico. Obama and Congress have always had the legal and military power to
force BP Oil to take all necessary action to stop the gusher and clean the oil
spew. While there is evidence that the problems in the Gulf have been a result
of collusion and planned incompetence, it begs the question, why in world
should America's oceans and resources be controlled by Obama appointees?

NATIONAL OCEAN COUNCIL MEMBERS:

John Holdren, Obama's science and technology advisor, is the co-chairman of
this new council. He is also a depopulation enthusiast and advocates
sterilization by way of using infertility drugs in water and food as well as
forced abortions which he describes in his book "Ecoscience"
.

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of Interior, and its subagency, MMS
(Minerals Management Service) has authority over offshore drilling and
responsibility for enforcing spill prevention measures. The Department of
Interior's BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is the entity that controls
federally managed land extending across 30% of America in 11 western states.
Last week, Congressman Louie Gohmert said that Ken Salazar personally prevented
drilling on land in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, thereby also preventing energy
independence. In addition, the federal lands have been grossly mismanaged and
present fire dangers. The federal government is $3.7 billion in arrears for
maintenance of the federally managed lands.

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, by way of the US Forestry
Service and US Fish & Wildlife Service, has been complicit in the decline
of our country's food independence. For example, US Fish & Wildlife (along
with the Department of Commerce) shut the water off in California using Endangered
Species Act; it was later proven that partially treated sewage was the primary
culprit in killing the salmon and delta smelt that was previously blamed on
farmers. This is phony environmentalism. The US Forestry Service has also
misused the Endangered Species Act to limit farmers and ranchers. Remember that
the USDA co-owns the Terminator Gene patent with Monsanto that makes seeds
sterile.

Lisa Jackson is the EPA administrator who has threatened to impose 18,000 pages of new regulations to curb global
warming which is based on lies, claiming that carbon dioxide is a danger to
human health.

Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano: it is unclear how these two federal appointees will
enhance environmental 'sustainability' over oceans and coasts. Traditionally,
national security threats (like the War on Terror) have been used by the
federal government to take control of resources. For example, many years ago
when the interstate highway systems were first being built, the Feds got in on
the action by claiming that they were building a defense highway system, and
they encroached into an area that belonged to the states. Interestingly, there
were no overhead structures on highways originally because of the Feds' claim
that large missiles would be transported on these "defense" highway
systems.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, a leading globalist, is likely to plunge our
country into international entanglements and subjugation, based on her past
performance; an example is her support of the UN Small Arms Treaty, which is
contrary to the Constitution.

Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Department of Commerce Secretary
Gary Locke are logical choices for this destructive council as some of the
planned funding for this program will come from permits and leases (oil
drilling leases, for example). These agencies will limit America's energy
independence.

Click here to see the full list of the 24 member
council.

THE SMOKING GUN:

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the overarching blueprint for
depopulationa and total control, and the National Ocean Council is clearly an
Agenda 21 program:

The National Ocean Council is headed by John Holdren, an avowed eugenicist
which is selective breeding through brutal means like forced abortion.

The National Ocean Counci's own report ( Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, pg. 8)
incorporates a section of the 1992 Rio Declaration which is an original UN
Agenda 21 document!

In fact, the report says that it will be guided by the Rio Declaration
in cases "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack
of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing
cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." (pg. 8)
This means that regulations will be imposed even if the science is not
understood or if the science is based on global warming manipulated data.(6)

The 3 primary tools of Agenda 21's phony environmentalism are global warming,
water shortages and the Endangered Species Act; the National Ocean Council
intends to exploit all of these tools to their full extent.

The National
Ocean Council's main objective is to sink American sovereignty through the
United Nations Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST) with the intended
result of domination
by the UN over our coasts and the Great Lakes. LOST originated in the
1970s as a wealth redistribution plan to benefit Third World countries. LOST
sets rules for commercial activity beneath the high seas and establishes new
international bureaucracies and a tribunal to interpret and apply rules to sea
activity. And LOST can proceed with those rules, even against US objections!
LOST threatens to complicate deep sea mining. LOST sets a precedent that US
rights are dependent upon the approval of international entities. LOST also
extends to ocean flowing rivers.

REGIONALISM:

Michael Shaw pointed out that non-elected councils are increasingly expanding
their jurisdiction through air quality boards, water quality boards, sewer
systems, transportation districts, metropolitan planning, etc. to gain control
over resources. Often, large corporations and financial interests form Public-
Private Partnerships with the government within these councils.

Breaking areas into regions and placing authority with non-elected councils is
a Communist
trick used to hijack resources, thereby usurping local and state power by
re-zoning the areas that do have Constitutional authority. Appointed
bureaucrats are untouchable because their jobs are not dependent upon serving
the voting population. And they are usually inaccessible to the public and do
not have to face those who are affected by their "insider" decisions.
When state and local governments become corrupt, the public is able to confront
them eye to eye, but distant bureaucrats can avoid accountability. Regionalism
is used as a psychological tactic to intimidate state legislatures into
creating the system for a new political and economic order.

Obama's Executive Order that has created the 9 new regions amounts to
re-zoning, and his appointed bureaucrats are answerable only to him. In David Horton's
testimony in 1978 on regionalism, he said that the State of Indiana
made this declaration, "Neither the states nor Congress have ever granted
authority to any branch or agency of the federal government to exercise
regional control over the states." Horton further stated that Congress
holds all legislative power that is granted in the Constitution, as opposed to
Executive Orders that are not legislative. Therefore, Obama's Executive Order
for re-zoning and appointing a governing body to usurp state and local power is
Constitutionally invalid.

The public must become aware of state sovereignty and the Tenth Amendment to
demand that state and local governments assert these Constitutional laws and
principles.

COASTAL AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING REPORT:

This is a general overview of the new National Ocean Council's goals based
on its 32-page report that uses indirect language and acronyms in
order to confuse the public and local lawmakers. Depopulation advocates,
globalists and collectivists, like John Holdren, faced opposition a few decades
ago when they clearly expressed their objectives, so now documents are written
in complicated and clouded language to fool those they wish to control.

This report states that the Council's jurisdiction will extend from the
continental shelf to the coast AND additional inland areas will be involved.
The National Ocean Council identifies "partners" as members of each
regional planning body that will include federal, state, local and tribal
authorities, with a top-down hierarchy of control.

The intentions of the Council are stated on page 8 of the report that include
implementing LOST and other international treaties.  The report also
states that the Counci's plans shall be implemented by Executive Orders, in
addition to federal and state laws.  This section mentions 'global climate
change' which is a new term used as a substitute for 'man made global warming'
after manipulated data and lies were exposed in numerous global
warming scandals.  'Climate change' is blamed for sea level rise and acidification of oceans; evidence exists that these are
more global warming deceptions.

The stated goals of the Council include regulating investments, collaborating
with unidentified international agencies, controlling public access to oceans
and "protecting" ecosystems. This means that commerce and trade will
be controlled by the Council, the UN will gain power over American oceans and
the Great Lakes through UN subagencies, public access will be limited and the
Endangered Species Act will be unleashed, with heavy regulations. Incidentally,
the Endangered
Species Act is based on 5 international treaties. It has never had a
successful result: of the 60 species that have been de-listed, not a single
species was saved as a result of any restrictions stemming from the Endangered
Species Act!

The targeted areas for Endangered Species Act regulations are the the Great
Lakes, the Gulf Coast, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, South Florida and the San
Francisco Bay (the Bay Delta is where the irrigation water for farmers was was
cut off using the Endangered Species Act, causing food shortages, an increase
in food imports and massive economic devastation).

While this report does not clearly outline how the National Ocean Council's
schemes will be financed, regulatory permits for all activity on the water and
mining (oil) leases will play a part, along with tax increases. The report does
indicate that grants and assistance programs will be available so that state,
local and tribal authorities will support the Council's "efforts". In
other words, the Council will try to buy off the state and local governments to
"collectively use" them for a base of support and influence. (pg. 28)
Strings are always attached to federal money. The federal government and the
Council are reliant on state and local governments for implementation through
state and local legal authority, which means that state and local authorities
hold the power to implement or refuse the Council's directives, especially
under the Tenth Amendment.

However, the report does state that disputes will be settled by consensus, if
consensus fails, then the decisions will ultimately be made by the President.
He is Commander in Chief of the Navy and has the power of the military behind
him. Further, the report indicates that legislative changes and more Executive
Orders may be necessary to achieve control.

An important point is made on page 5, which states, "Strong partnerships
among Federal, State, tribal and local authorities, and regional governance
structures would be essential to a truly forward-looking, comprehensive CMSP
effort." This means that the states, local governments and tribes have
power. Our collectivist government needs the consent of the state, local and
tribal authorities, to implement this scheme, otherwise, the feds wouldn't
bother to include these Constitutional authorities. If the state, local and
tribal authorities are aware of, and willing to act on their Constitutional
authority, then they can limit this federal power grab through the Tenth
Amendment.

The report further states that signing onto the Council's plan would be an
"express commitment by the partners to act in accordance with the
plan..." (pg. 20) Therefore, it is imperative that all of the states be
aware of the Council's intended usurpation and carefully protect their
Constitutional jurisdictions and sovereignty. There are 30 states that will be
affected by this new council. (pg. 12)

The Council's strategy plan will go into effect immediately, fully developing
Agenda 21 objectives and undue UN influence within 5 years. Interestingly, one
article said that if state, local and tribal authorities choose not to
participate in in writing the plans, the plans would be written without them.
Therefore, it bears repeating that state and local governments must protect
their Constitutional authority when dealing with the Council. The
Constitutional authority that states and local governments have can only be
taken if the power is given away.

SAVING OUR COUNTRY:

If your freedom is important to you, the most effective action that you can
take is to e-mail this article and Michael Shaw's "Understanding Agenda 21 Sustainable Development"
booklet to all of your State Legislators, County Commissioners/ Superintendents
and City Council members.

Tell all of your friends, co-workers and neighbors about Agenda 21 Sustainable
Development and how it is destroying our country. The National Ocean Council is
detrimental on so many levels and the time to act is now. If state and local
officials refuse to stand up against this federal incursion, they must be
thrown out of office in favor of representatives who support the Constitution
and the Tenth Amendment.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ALERT REGARDING THE CLEAR ACT

-----Original Message-----

From: American Landrights [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:55 AM

To: Scott S. Shock

Subject: Urgent, Urgent, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Are Taking Your Land

Land Rights Network

Keep Private Lands In Private
Hands Coalition

American Land Rights Association

PO Box 400 - Battle Ground, WA
98604

Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax:
360-687-2973

E-mail: [email-masked]

Web Address: http://www.landrights.org

Legislative Office: 507 Seward
Square SE - Washington, DC 20003

Urgent, Urgent, Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid Are Taking Your Land

CARA Comes Back As The CLEAR Out
Of Rural America Act

(HR 3534)

From the Keep Private Lands In
Private Hands Coalition:

If you liked CARA, Eminent
Domain or Condemnation of private land,

you’ll love the new
Multi-Billion Dollar Land Acquisition Trust

Fund being rushed through
Congress by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the House
call it the CLEAR Act. We call it the

Clear Out Of Rural America Act
(CORA). In the Senate it will be

Senator Harry Reid’s Energy
bill that will contain the giant multi

Billion Dollar Land and Water
Conservation Trust Fund.

-----And now Harry Reid brags
that he is going to include a

Multi-Billion Dollar LWCF Land
Grab in his Energy Bill and force the

Senate to pass it before the
August recess.

It’s a Monster $1 billion
per year automatic off budget land

acquisition trust fund attached
to HR 3534 in the House, called The

Consolidated Land, Energy, And
Aquatic Resources Act of 2010

otherwise known as the Clear
Act.

We don’t have a Senate
number yet but you don’t need that. Just

ask for Harry Reid’s
Energy Bill with the Land and Water

Conservation Trust Fund inside.

-----Time is of the essence. The
Democrats are moving fast on this

issue. And they are moving
behind closed doors, largely in secret.

-----The Clear Act and Harry
Reid Energy Bill both use the Gulf oil

spill tragedy as a tool to make
changes to the collection of

royalties, creates a commercial
leasing program for wind and solar on

federal lands and waters, establishes
direct automatic funding of over

a billion dollars for the Land
And Water Conservation Fund (LWCF),

Historic Preservation, and a new
Ocean Conservation Fund.

These will end up being
permanent Trust Funds that will guarantee

huge amounts of money for land
acquisition, condemnation and other

uses. They will undermine local
communities, destroy local economies,

severely damage small business,
cost thousands of jobs, force rural

families into the cities and
generally destroy rural America.

-----The Gulf oil spill tragedy
should not be used as a political

opportunity to impose a
devastating land acquisition trust fund on

the American people and destroy
Rural America or push through

legislation that’s
unrelated to the spill response or reforms to

offshore drilling.

-----There is an immediate
crisis unfolding in the Gulf and our top

priorities must remain ensuring
the leak is stopped, cleaning up the

oil, addressing the needs of the
Gulf state communities and holding

BP 100% accountable.

-----The Democrats are trying to
hold Halloween early. They are

hiding a wish list of land grabs
and new regulations under the

plastic mask of reforming
offshore drilling. And they are playing

hide and seek with you to keep
you from knowing exactly what is going

on. So much for transparency.

Reforms are clearly needed to
make American offshore drilling the

safest in the world, but
Congress should not get ahead of the facts

in a rush to write new laws.
There are numerous investigations

underway, including by Congress
and a Presidential Commission that

just recently held its first
meeting. To ensure it makes the right

reforms, Congress must first
know exactly what caused and contributed

to this disaster

It’s just as important for
Congress to find out how proposed new

laws would affect American jobs,
our economy and our dependence on

foreign energy. The oil spill is
causing real economic pain

throughout the Gulf region and
the federal government shouldn’t

cause even greater harm to jobs
and the economy by rushing to pass

laws without first understanding
their impacts. They are hiding a

wish list of land acquisition
measures behind the guise of addressing

the oil spill.

To see how the Clear Out Of
Rural America Act (CORA) damages Rural

America and the country in
general, look back at the impacts of CARA,

the Condemnation and Relocation
Act by going to < www.landrights.org

<http://www.landrights.org/>

> and click on the
Starburst.

From where we sit when someone
calls a chicken a duck, and we see

that it walks like a duck and
quacks like a duck, it’s a duck, no

matter what the land grabbers
say. The Clear Out Of Rural America Act

walks, looks and acts like CARA.

-----The Clear Out Of Rural
America Act will destroy more private

property than any legislation in
history. No inholder will be safe

anywhere near a National Park,
National Forest, Wildlife Refuge,

National Trail, National
Seashore, National Recreation Area, National

Scenic Area and many more.

The Clear Out Of Rural America
will create an incentive to pass more

laws in Congress using eminent
domain and condemnation creating:

-----Giant new Wildlife
Corridors covering several states and

connecting existing parks and
other areas.

-----Expanding existing areas
like those below

Numerous new and expanded
Wilderness Areas

Massive billion dollar per year
off budget land acquisition trust

fund

More use of eminent domain

More condemnation of private
land and homes

A huge increase in land use
regulations

More environmental regulations

Many more National Monuments

New National Trails

New National Heritage Areas

New National Parks

New Wild and Scenic Rivers

New National Lakeshores

New National Scenic Areas

New National Seashores

New National Recreation Areas

New National Grasslands

New National Preserves

National Historic Areas

New Greenways

New Viewsheds

New Soundsheds

New Airsheds (air controls on industry)

New scenic byways with land use
controls

The list goes on. There will be
more.

Working together, we can stop
these proposals until Congress can show

it can take care of what it has
and protects private property rights.

-----HR 3534 and the Harry Reid
Energy Bill will force thousands of

farmers and ranchers off their
range. It will wipe out the mining

industry and do great damage to
the oil industry. It will undermine

private forestry. It will
destroy local tax bases, which will force

taxes up for those that remain
and ultimately turn rural America into

a playground for the rich.

The race is on. The greens and
their allies will seek to enlist as

many Congressmen and Senators as
co-sponsors. They will seek to get

organizations like the Farm
Bureau, NRA and National Association of

Counties to support the bill
like they did with CARA.

ACTION ITEMS: You need to act
fast.

Here’s what you must do
quickly.

-----1. Please forward this
message as widely as possible and fast.

-----2. Send an e-mail asking to
join the Keep Private Lands In

Private Hands Coalition to [email-masked]

<mailto:[email-masked]>

by simply writing
“Join Private Property Coalition” in the

subject line. Be sure to put
your name, address, zip, fax and e-mail

together. We will not give your
information to anyone else.

-----3. Call your Representative
to let him or her know you oppose

the Clear Act (HR 3534) or any
bill with a trust fund for land

acquisition. Ask that a copy of
the bill be sent to you. Be aware

that it may get another bill
number so you should also refer to the

Land and Water Conservation Fund
portion of the bill. That is the

funding vehicle they plan on
turning into a trust fund. You may call

any Congressman at (202) 225
3121. Tell him no trust fund period. No

new entitlements. Insist that
all funding go through the traditional

appropriations process.

-----4. Call your Senators at
(202) 224-3121 to oppose Harry Reid’s

Energy bill with any
multi-billion dollar land acquisition trust fund

inside. We don’t have a
number yet. The Senate will not vote on the

Clear Act from the House. Ask
for a copy of the Senate version of any

bill with the LWCF Billion
Dollar Per Year Trust Fund inside. It is

likely to be Harry Reid’s
Energy bill. They will try to play hide

and seek with you so you must
pin them down.

-----5. Ask your Senators to
hold hearings on Harry Reids Energy

Bill, the Senate version of the
bill with the Billion Dollar Trust

Fund hidden inside.

-----6. Send your Congressman
and both Senator s an e-mail AND a fax

if you have that capability even
if you have called.

-----7. Call your Congressman to
ask him or her for a meeting when he

or she come home during the
August recess or later before the

election. Get a group of friends
to go to the meeting with you. You

need to look your Congressman in
the face eyeball to eyeball to get

across how dangerous this bill
is and how much it will affect your

votes, now and in the future.

-----8. Ask your Senator for a
meeting during the August Recess.

Attend any public meetings they
hold.

-----9. Ask your Congressman and
both Senators for their schedule

during the August recess.

-----10. You need to scan the
newspapers for any meetings being held

locally by your Congressman or
either Senator during the August

recess or as they run for
re-election. Make sure you attend these

meetings and ask him or her
pointed questions about the Multi-Billion

Dollar Land Acquisition Trust
Fund and how they are going to vote on

HR 3534 or the Harry Reid Energy
Bill with the Trust Fund inside.

-----11. Please make copies of
e-mail and hand them out to your

friends. The more people who hear
about this giant land grab the

better chance you have to defeat
it.

-----12. Call any organizations
you are a member of to urge them to

not sign on to HR 3534 or the
Harry Reid Energy Bill with the LWCF

Trust Fund inside. The Farm
Bureau, National Association of Counties

and NRA should be first on your
list.

-----13. Send us the Names,
addresses, Zip, Phone, Fax and e-mail of

anyone you think should be kept
informed about the Clear Act (HR

3534), the Clear Out of Rural America
Act or the Harry Reid Energy

Bill with the LWCF Trust Fund
inside. Send us directories of allied

organizations. Help us build a
team that can defeat the giant

international green industrial
complex.

-----14. Call your friends and
neighbors to get them to call your

Congressman and both Senators.
Tell them to ask for copies of HR

3534.

Please make your calls, and send
your faxes and e-mails as quickly as

you can. The more of an uprising
that occurs quickly, the better

chance you have of stopping HR
3534. When a Congressman commits to

support a bill, he hates to
remove his name later. Better get to your

Congressman early.

And forward this message as
widely as possible.

Background:

*Title III of HR 3534 –
*This Title makes significant reforms to

the onshore oil and gas program,
once again completely unrelated to

the spill in the Gulf. Already
many western states have seen the

flight of jobs and capital away
from production on federal lands to

other parts of the country where
access to private land is much

easier and less bureaucratic.
However this process has and will

shortchange federal land
communities, stifle job creation, and reduce

benefits and revenues to the
federal, state and local governments.

*Title IV of HR 3534 - *This
Title extends the authorization for the

Land and Water Conservation Fund
(LWCF) and the National Historic

Preservation Fund (HPF) until
2040, another 30 years without further

Congressional consideration. In
addition, the bill makes the funds

subject to direct appropriation
to the tune of $900,000,000 for LWCF

and $150,000,000 for the HPF.
This amounts to over a billion dollars

a year in automatic spending
– unrelated to the oil spill. They are

hiding this massive spending
behind the oil spill. More government. A

bigger deficit.

*TITLE V of HR 3534 - *This
Title establishes a competitive leasing

program for commercial solar or
wind energy development on the OCS,

BLM and Forest Service lands. It
also allows non-competitive leasing

for resource data collection.
This title also directs the Secretary

to set rates for rentals, bonus
bids, and royalties for wind and

solar on federal lands.

-----HR 3534 DOES NOT share the
revenue from renewable resources on

federal land with states or
localities. The states and counties get a

portion of fees paid by other
users of Federal land.

*TITLE VI of HR 3534 - *This
Title includes the establishment of the

new “ORCA” fund for
ocean conservation.

* *

This Title implements regional
councils and marine spatial planning

into the OCS the goal of this
title is to establish a new management

regime for the OCS based on a
new program of essentially,

“zoning” the ocean.
This is proposed to allow energy development

to be compatible with other
uses; however, as stated above the

changes to the OCSLA elevate
other uses of the OCS above oil and gas

exploration and production.

One of the unique realities
Westerners face is that Western States

are more sensitive to
Washington’s policies. This is because of the

high concentration of federal
lands in the West.

The United States
government already owns enough land!

The federal government currently
owns roughly 650 million acres in

the U.S.A. That means nearly 1
out of 3 acres in this country is

owned and controlled by the
federal government. In the western United

States, 1 out of every 2 acres
is owned and controlled by the federal

government. In 13 Western
states, 51.9% of the land is owned by the

federal government. In the 37
other states, only 4.1% is federally

owned.

Roughly 2/3 of Utah’s
lands are owned and controlled by the federal

government.

Easterners need to understand
that there is a plan in process to

create wildlife corridors
connecting all the parks and forests in the

East. This would mean eminent
domain or condemnation of lots of

private land in the East. The
North Woods of Maine, New Hampshire,

Vermont and New York are an
especially important target for the

greens.

So don’t sit back and
think this is just a Western issue. You are

in for a big surprise if you do
not take action now to fight this

Multi-Billion Dollar Land
Acquisition Trust Fund.

At a time when we have
increasing deficits, and scarce funding to

protect and maintain the public
lands we have, now is not the time to

expand federal control over more
land.

The federal government has a
responsibility to maintain and protect

our national resources for
future generations. However, our public

land agencies cannot accomplish
this mission if we continue to expand

federal control over more lands
without considering the current needs

of our existing parks and
forests.

Over the past 15 years, federal
land acquisition funding has averaged

hundreds of millions annually.
Over the last forty years, the federal

government has spent nearly $13
billion on land acquisition. Looking

at it another way: an area
larger than the size of Florida has been

added to the federal estate
since John F. Kennedy was president.

This makes no sense. Over a
decade ago a report completed under the

Clinton Administration stated
“land management agencies should

improve their stewardship of the
lands they already own before taking

on additional management
responsibilities.” The report goes on to

say “environmental
objectives such as habitat protection and access

to recreation might be best met
by improving management in currently

held areas rather than providing
minimal management over a larger

domain.”

Spending billions of dollars for
additional land acquisition makes

even less sense when one
considers the condition of existing federal

lands. A recent Congressional
Research Service report estimated the

maintenance backlog at the four
federal agencies to be near $15.7

billion. Roads, campgrounds, and
other basic facilities in our

existing National Parks are
crumbling and not being repaired. Does it

make any sense whatsoever to
spend money acquiring new lands if

we’re not properly caring
for the lands we already own?

Federal ownership of western
lands makes the Western U.S. a unique

part of this country. Indeed,
the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and

the U.S. Forest Service have
become the planning and zoning boards

for much of the rural West.
Issues that anywhere else in the nation

would be state or local, like
locating a road or building a water

system, are federal issues in
the West.

BLM and Forest Service managers
decide how many cows will graze where

and at what time of year, where
a pipeline or a road must go and other

details of local land use. As a
result, the federal government has an

overwhelming influence on the
local economies of many Western

communities. Because of this,
bad federal policies uniquely target

and harm western states.

In 13 Western states, 51.9% of
the land is owned by the federal

government. In the 37 other
states, only 4.1% is federally owned.

While the federal government
promised in these Western states’

enabling acts that they would
sell a portion of these federal lands

and dedicate the funds to state
projects, the government has instead

increased its holdings. The
federal government continues to increase

those holdings, spending close
to $200 million a year to acquire new

lands.

Through the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, (LWCF), the federal

government is currently able to spend
up to $900 million on land

acquisitions with virtually no
restrictions.

It makes more sense for the
federal government to sell land or focus

its resources on the maintenance
and upkeep of the land already under

its control. But it is likely in
the near term that some federal land

acquisition is going to continue
because we have more Congressmen who

support additional purchases
than oppose them. As long as the federal

government continues to buy
land, we must do so with discretion and

be particularly vigilant that we
protect private property owners.

Maintenance funding is
inadequate, and the Feds can’t manage what

they already own: During his
second inaugural address, President

Ronald Reagan spoke of the
unique quality created by American

democracy – a government
which “was not our master,

it is our servant; its only
power that which we the people allow it

to have.” He spoke about
his accomplishment of creating a “new

beginning” in which his
Administration had reversed a trend of

asking the federal government to
reign over decisions “that

properly belonged to states or
to local governments or to the people

themselves.”

He went on to explain that the
“system  has never

failed us, but for a time, we
failed the system” by yielding too

much authority to the federal
government. In the two decades since

the “new beginning”
we have again failed the system; as President

Reagan said, “we have
asked things of the government that the

government was not equipped to
give.

Nowhere is this issue more prevalent
than in the Western United

States where more than 54% of
our lands are owned and controlled by

the federal government. This
federal land ownership is placing a

burden on many communities that
impacts not only their authority to

make decisions about how their
lands are used but also their tax

base.

Today, the federal government
owns 84 percent of State of Nevada, 69

percent of Alaska, 57 percent of
Utah, 53 percent of Oregon, and 48

percent here in Arizona. This
federal presence severely diminishes

the tax base in these states.
The result is that Westerners are

forced to pay higher property
taxes to pay for essential services

such as law enforcement, health
care, and education.

The disproportionate share of
federal land ownership in the West will

have impacts that reach far
beyond our inability to control what

happens on federal land. For
example, Western states, on average,

have more pupils per classroom
than the rest of the country and are

projected to have enrollment
dramatically increase over the next ten

years, while the rest of the
country will have a decrease.

This means that Western states
will be spending less money per pupil

than Eastern states communities
especially in those states where

federal land ownership is out of
control. The reason for lower pupils

per classroom and lower growth
in per pupil expenditures is not the

result of states not taxing
enough. The reason is that these states

cannot generate tax revenue on
nearly half of the state’s land

mass.

Sincerely,

July -- 2010

Chuck Cushman

Keep Private Lands In Private
Hands Coalition

American Land Rights Association

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(360) 687-3087

www.landrights.org

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