| Show Multiple Use on Public Lands Supported by Senator Moss WASHINGTON Senator Frank E. E Moss Utah D-Utah announced announced announced an an- Monday that the Subcommittee o 0 n Public Lands of the Senate Committee Commit Commit- tee on Interior and Insular Affairs held hearings last week on two bills passed by bythe bythe bythe the House which will provide for multiple use of federal lands and for the public sale of federal lands not needed for federal programs or long range public land tion Moss has introduced a bill billIn billin In the Senate which is designed design desIgn- ed to accomplish similar use and sale of public lands The Moss bill however would establish establish es es- es- es i a program while the House bills would be In effect only until 1968 Moss told the subcommittee tee The legislation provides for tor local and public participation tion in the development of sound federal land use It provides provides provides pro pro- vides for a review of the federal federal federal fed fed- eral lands and for the establishment establishment establishment via regulations of the criteria under which the lands will be designated It provides for appropriate notice notice notice no no- tice of actions proposed by bythe bythe bythe the Department of the InterIor Interior Inter Inter- for and It defines the terms public land multiple use and sustained yield Moss said My bill will assure assure as as- sure continuation of the policy policy policy poli poli- cy of multiple use In the management management management man man- of million acres of land in Utah under the jurisdiction jurisdiction jur jur- jur of the Bureau of Land Management Moss said that the bill provides pro pro- vides for management to maintain sustained yield of the several products and services services services ser ser- ser ser- vices of the land Sustained yield is defined as the achievement and maintenance In perpetuity of ofa a level high-level annual or regular I periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national land reserve without Impairment of the productivity of the land Moss pointed out that the bill lists minerals as one o othe of the specific purposes for which the lands may be ad ad- ministered |
