[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 67 (Monday, May 4, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1053]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. GLENN THOMPSON

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 4, 2009

  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, on rollcall no. 208 I 
was absent on the evening of April 27, 2009 because I was attending a 
public meeting at the Allegheny National Forest in Warren, Pennsylvania 
regarding the pending Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
(SEIS), ongoing litigation, and the proposed ``settlement.'' Recent 
Forest Service actions on the Allegheny have created adverse economic 
distress in my rural district and are unfairly denying my constituents 
access to their legally owned subsurface mineral rights.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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