[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 25, 2000)]
[Senate]
[Page S2865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          REPORT OF COMMITTEE

  The following report of committee was submitted:

       By Mr. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute:
       S. 1608: A bill to provide annual payments to the States 
     and counties from National Forest System lands managed by the 
     Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California 
     Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands 
     managed predominately by the Bureau of Land Management, for 
     use by the counties in which the lands are situated for the 
     benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other 
     public purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for 
     cooperation between counties and the Forest Service and the 
     Bureau of Land Management to make necessary investments in 
     federal lands, and reaffirm the positive connection between 
     Federal Lands counties and Federal Lands; and for other 
     purposes (Rept. No. 106-275).

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