[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 14 (Thursday, February 1, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E136-E137]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE ACT OF 1995

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                               speech of

                            HON. BOB FRANKS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 30, 1996

  Mr. FRANKS of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, in 1970 my home State of New 
Jersey exported 80 percent of its garbage. In order to achieve self-
sufficiency and address complaints about sending our garbage elsewhere, 
New Jersey invested $2 billion to develop an extensive flow-control 
program. Now, thanks to flow control, New Jersey exports less than 20 
percent of its solid waste.
  The application of this bill is limited. This measure will allow 
States to continue their flow-control programs only if they had 
exercised their flow-control authority before May 16, 1994.
  The spirit of this Congress has been to give more power and 
responsibility to the States to manage their own affairs. It is wrong, 
after having once given that power, to now forbid a State like New 
Jersey to manage its own waste through methods that have proven to 
work.

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  If New Jersey cannot continue its effective system of flow control, 
the $2 billion burden of flow-control bonds will fall on the backs of 
the residents of New Jersey in the form of new and higher taxes. I urge 
a ``yes'' vote on this bill.

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