Show I I I lie I Ol Tile m Ily Senator Jake In its recent decision on the snail darter ca Supreme warned Congress that it intends to en- force legislation to the proverbial letter of I have expressed the same warning many times over the past few but only the Supreme Court can com- mand such undivided By preserving the snail darter instead of the Tellico the Court has demonstrated a very rigid tion of the Endangered Species In the the Court appears to be telling if you pass the you will have to live with them no matter how no matter how un- The Supreme Court will no longer rescue us from the ambiguous language that characterizes so much of the legislation produced by Congress to- d This policy will be both our burden and our opportunity in It will mr to SQ they are clear and simple arid our op- to insure that the laws reflect our When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in it had no intention of rigidly preventing any significant tion of air quality all across the coun- But this is how the Act is being In- by the judiciary because ot vagueness and it is impossible to believe that in passing the 1972 Clean Water intended to grant the Army Corps of Engineers permitting ty over all tiny streams and ponds ot In the case of the Endangered Species we must revise the language to provide greater flexibility and j am very for that the entire Colorado River could be in order to protect the habitat of the chub and the razorback We shouldn't be un- concerned about such but undistinguished animals and their cousins cannot stand in the way of the development of our And Congress did not intend that the tiny snail darter may have major value after It may provide the impetus for Congress to start writing more effective legisla- tion In the |