Posted on 01/26/2003 8:13:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:47:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SACRAMENTO(AP) - Regional water quality control boards are adding requirements for timber companies, pre-empting state regulators they say aren't doing enough to protect California's rivers and streams.
Some water boards have approved and others are considering a policy that imposes additional protections for streams and stream banks, for logging roads and stream culverts that typically cause erosion, for erosion-prone steep slopes, for clear-cuts, for endangered and threatened species like salmon, and allow for additional inspections of logging sites.
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It's obvious that someone needs to determine who has authority over what, and remove said authority from other governmental agencies.
But, since it's obvious, government will NEVER figure it out.
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