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Show Violation of Poison Rules Could Loose Grazing Permits The Department of the In terior has proposed new regulations reg-ulations to restrict the use of poison to control predatory animals on public lands. Under one of the proposals, persons holding licenses or permits to graze animals on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management cou:d lose the permits or license cr have their grazing use reduced, reduc-ed, if they use such poisons without written authorization to do so. 1 The notices are being published pub-lished in the Federal Regis ter. Interested persons will have until May 1 to comment upon the proposals. Department officials noted that President Nixon, in an Executive Order dated February Feb-ruary 8, 1972, banned the field use of poisons to control predators pred-ators on any Federal lands. Also covered by the ban were chemicals toxicants aimed at non-predators which could have secondary poisoning effects ef-fects to any mammal, bird or reptile. Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton stated at that time that predators will continue to be taken by other means, including trapping, trap-ping, shooting and denning. The objective of the Executive Execu-tive Order, he emphasized, was to halt the use of poisons but not to stop all Federal predator control programs, pending further action by Congress. The Executive Order, and the proposed new regulations give the Secretary of the Interior In-terior discretionary power to authorize the use of poisons in emergency situations, after af-ter consultation with heads of certain Federal agencies, if such use is essential to protection pro-tection and safety of human life; to the preservation of an endangered wildlife rpec-ies; rpec-ies; or to prevent substantial irretrievable damage to natural na-tural resources having national nation-al signifiance. Two other new laws have bcen proposed for comment . by May 1. Also being published publish-ed in the Federal Register, they would 1-Formalize the President's ban on poisons to cover ail lands managed by BLM, under un-der the conditions described above; and 2-Make violation of State or Federal conservation laws or regulations a -cause for revocation revo-cation or reduction of a grazing graz-ing license or permit if the violation concerns BLM grazing graz-ing lands and is related to the grazing use authorized by the license er permit. To conservation laws and regulations regu-lations referred to in this proposed new rule would include in-clude but not be limited to air and water pollution, protection of fish and wildlife, wild-life, and uses of pesticides. |
