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Proposed fiscal year 2005 budget request for the Department of the Interior: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United ... consider the President's proposed fiscal year
United States. Congress. Senate
Paperback. Books LLC, Reference Series 2011-11-22.
ISBN 9781234882297
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OCLC Number: 55750921 Excerpt: ... 4 of Reclamation, but it is also proposing $ 25 million in cuts in other Bureau of Reclamation programs that support conservation and ef-ficiency and collaboration and technology initiatives. On top of that, the budget proposes a 64 percent cut in the title 16 water reclamation and reuse projects, despite the endorsement of water reuse in this Water 2025 initiative. I have real doubts as to whether what is proposed represents a real commitment to dealing with the water issues in the West. Let me mention one other major concern that I have, Mr. Chair-man. This is an unfortunate subject to have to raise, but I do not think we have ever had a period that I have observed in the 21 years I have been here where we have had such poor levels of re-sponse from the Department, and let me cite two examples of what concerns me here. I wrote, Secretary Norton, to you in September of last year re-questing information about the NFL kickoff event on the Mall. That was in connection with an amendment that I was going to offer to the Interior appropriation bill. You never replied. Instead, we did get a response back from one of your staff on December 17. That was 3 months after we wrote. That was more than 2 months after the Senate voted overwhelmingly for the amendment that I was trying to get information relevant to, and it was more than a month after President Bush had signed the bill into law that in-cluded the amendment. In the reply, the staff member that replied to me said that the Department had chosen to treat my questions ' ' in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. ' ' There are various exemptions under that act which he said would allow him to withhold the in-formation and he did note that he was going to graciously not charge me the $ 16.70 usual for answering a letter, which I appre-ciated.ughter. ] [ La INGAMAN Senator B. Congress enacted the Freedom of Informa-tion Act to broaden the rights of any person to obtain go
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