[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              POINT REYES FARMLAND PROTECTION ACT OF 1999

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I am back. I am back because our country 
continues to lose farmland at an alarming rate. I am back because I 
again have introduced legislation to protect the beautiful farmland 
near the Point Reyes National Seashore in my congressional district 
just north of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge.

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  This land is 40 miles from San Francisco. It is under heavy threat 
for development, and because of that, I am introducing the Point Reyes 
Farmland Protection Act of 1999, H.R. 2202.
  This bill establishes that a local-Federal partnership, completely 
voluntary, will make it possible for landowners to sell their 
conservation easements, and that these local landowners are willing 
sellers. The goal is to protect the productive and pristine family 
farms that are a way of life in my district.
  In the last Congress I had similar legislation that was supported by 
228 bipartisan cosponsors. Please join me to protect agriculture. Sign 
onto the Point Reyes Farmland Protection Act, H.R. 2202.

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