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Show Environmental Law Violations Can Cancel Grazing Permits The Department of the Interior announced today that it will continue to entertain comments from the public until June ! 12, 1973, on a proposed new regulation that would 3 permit the Bureau of Land Management to cancel grazing privileges privi-leges on public lands for violations of Federal and State conservation-laws. The proposed rulemaking rule-making originally was published for a comment March 1, 1972. Notice of the extension of time for comments was published pub-lished in the Federal Register for April 25, 1973. As drafted, the new rules would make grazing graz-ing privileges subject to cancellation or reduction where a grazier has under un-der certain conditions violated or failed to comply com-ply with an Federal or State law or regulation concerning the conservation conser-vation or protection of natural resources or the environment. At the same time, the Department announced that public comments will be welcomed on two other and related proposed pro-posed changes in the Code of Federal Regulations Regu-lations affecting grazing privileges on public lands. Comments on these items will be received re-ceived until 45 days after publication of an envir-' onmental impact statement state-ment which is still being prepared within the Department. De-partment. These two proposed rules would: 1. Restrict the use on public lands of chemical toxicants for killing predatory pre-datory mammals or birds and similarly restrict re-strict chemical toxicants toxi-cants . which cause any secondary poisoning ef fects to non-ur, I mals. UrM 2. Authorize grazing privii'''.' Pubc lands fo1 K authorized use of cals l"xie top f : , mammals or hir'" toxic to other rr ' ' birds and reptit7;? may cause J,.,1-poisoning J,.,1-poisoning effects ; Both these p' I new rules also' hshed originallvr Federal RefH L President XjXOnV an Executive Ord-" ruary 8, 1972 t:''; the use of prjm , secondary poiSf predator control public lands. Comments shr,v ' addressed t0 Di;::. (210), Bureau 7,: 1 Management, De"' ment of the i:'' Washington, D.C V |