[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