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Show 59 ENVIRONMENT ity life in quality surroundings for all Americans. It is essential be cause control of the land is the key to insuring that all future de HID velopment is in harmony with sound ecological principles. • On January 29, 1970, Senator Henry Jackson introduced the National Land-Use Policy Act of 1970 (S 3354). Senator Jackson's proposal would provide grants-in-aid total ing $50 million annually to develop and implement statewide landuse plans. These funds would be used by the states to hire and train personnel in land-use planning and management, and to establish land-use planning agencies." Land Use Polley Act • Within four years of the bill's enactment, each state planning agency must have the authority to implement the statewide en • State authority vironmental, recreational, and industrial land-use plan. That authority would include the power to acquire land, to control the de velopment that takes place in certain areas specified by the plan, and to conduct public hearings on the plan to insure full public participation." • The Act would also create a Federal Land Water Resources Planning Council, headed by the Secretary of the Interior, to ad minister the program." Russell Train, Chairman of the Environmental Quality Coun told= the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee on cil, 1970: "There is a need for further discussion and public April 28, • debate on the ideas contained in S 3354 Use Policy Act proposal). unqualified support to the (Senator Jackson's Landas yet give present bill." Although the Administration was reluctant to support Senator bill, conservationists such as Thomas Kimball, executive director of the National Wildlife Federation, have testified that, "A National Policy, as proposed in S 3354, is necessary because our country can no longer afford conflicting land-use prac • tices."> • On December 14, 1970, Senator Jackson's Interior Committee reported S 3354; however, no action was taken and the bill was re introduced on January 26, 1971. • President Nixon's proposed legislation providing for a national on March 6, 1972 by Senators J ack and Gordon Allott (R Colo.) son policy was stration hesitates The Administration cannot Jackson's 1970 land-use AdminI introduced . Conservationists support Jackson bill |
