    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 17 (Monday, April 29, 1996)]
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    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on Waivers for Environmental Management

    April 26, 1996

    Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture

    Subject: Suspension of Subsection 325(a) and Subsection 325(b) of the
    Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appro- priations Act,
    1996, (``Act'') as set forth in Section 101(c) of Title I of the Omnibus
    Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (H.R. 3019)
    Concerning the Tongass National Forest

        By the authority vested in me by subsection 325(c) of the Department
    of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, (``Act'')
    as set forth in section 101(c) of title I of the Omnibus Consolidated
    Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (H.R. 3019), and section 301
    of title 3, United States Code, I hereby suspend subsections 325(a) and
    325(b) of the Act because I have determined that such suspension is
    appropriate based upon the public interest in sound environmental
    management and protection of cultural, biological, or historic
    resources.
        This suspension shall take effect immediately and shall continue in
    effect for the period in which subsection 325(a) and subsection 325(b)
    of the Act would otherwise be in effect.
        You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the
    Federal Register.

                                                William J. Clinton