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Show Moss, Morse Introduce Multiple Use Bill Senator Frank E. Moss CD-Utah) CD-Utah) announced this week that he and Senator Wayne Morse CD-Ore.) CD-Ore.) have introduced a bill to provide for full recognition of the multiple-uSse principle on those Federal lands administered adminis-tered by the Bureau of Land Management. He said it is similar to the Multiple Use Act of 1960. which applies only to national forests of which there are about 7.7 million mil-lion acres in Utah. And he added: "My bill will assure continuation continua-tion of the policy of multiple use in the management of the 24.5 million acres of land in Utah under the jurisdiction of the BLM." , Senator Moss said the bill provides pro-vides also for management to maintain "sustained yield of the several products and services" of the land. Sustained yield is "defined as "the achievement and maintenance mainte-nance in perpetuity of a high-level high-level annual of regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national land reserve . . . without impairment of the productivity of the land." Senator Moss pointed out that the bill lists minerals as one of the specific purposes for which the lands may be administered. And he said that no conflict with wilderness legislation was possible, possi-ble, since "there are no specific wilderness areas in the usual sense on the Bureau of Land Management holdings." He noted that passage of the bill would establish a legal requirement re-quirement for multiple-use on a total of $32,200,000 acres of Federal Fed-eral lands in Utah. Except for military and reclamation ue, there are about 604,000 eQ now devoted to single uses, MOoS said, including the primitive areas of the high Uintah, and areas under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. In his introductory statement to the Senate, Senator Moss inserted in-serted into the Congressional Record statements of several in-dustrial in-dustrial associations, whose members utilize the public lands, stating their support of the multiple-use principle. |