    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 17 (Monday, April 29, 1996)]
    [Pages 729-730]
    [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 the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce

    Subject: Suspension of the Proviso Limiting Implementation of
    Subsections (a), (b), (c), (e), (g), or (i) of the Endangered Species
    Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) Contained in the Omnibus Consolidated
    Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (H.R. 3019)

        By the authority vested in me by the final proviso under the heading
    of United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Resource Management, of
    title I of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
    Appropriations

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    Act, 1996 (authorizing the suspension of the preceding proviso limiting
    implementation of subsections (a), (b), (c), (e), (g), or (i) of section
    4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) (``limitation
    proviso'')), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby
    suspend that limitation proviso because I have determined that such
    suspension is appropriate based upon the public interest in sound
    environmental management, sustainable resource use, protection of
    national or locally-affected interests, and protection of cultural,
    biological, or historic resources.
        This suspension is effective immediately and shall continue until
    the limitation proviso expires.
        The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to report this
    suspension to the Congress and to publish this memorandum in the Federal
    Register.

                                                William J. Clinton