[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8537]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TIME FOR REFORM FOR THE SAVANNAH DISTRICT OF THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF 
                               ENGINEERS

  (Mr. NORWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, here we go again, a different constituent, 
but the same old shenanigans, the Savannah District of the U.S. Army 
Corps of Engineers.
  Jim Davis buys a house on Lake Thurman, so he can enjoy the beauty 
and recreational opportunity that this part of Georgia has to offer. 
That sounds easy enough, does it not? Yet, when the Corps gets 
involved, it is never easy, it is a pain in the neck.
  The Corps will not approve Dr. Davis's permit for lakeshore use until 
he replants trees within the underbrush area that was cut down some 25 
years ago. It is not even his property, it is public property. That is 
fine, if Dr. Davis had been the one to cut down the trees, but he was 
not. He just bought the property. So the Corps, which obviously has 
nothing better to do than to harass my constituents, hassles a man who 
is simply trying to mind his own business and follow some commonsense 
rules.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the Corps to reform its bully mentality 
and its ludicrous shoreline management plan. If they cannot manage 
people, they cannot manage property.

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