Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Changes in Interior Bill Clear Conferees
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A House-Senate panel approved a $12-billion measure to fund natural resources programs, with changes in provisions on mining law and logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The bill would retain the moratorium on mining leases on federal lands for 1996, reinstate some environmental protections for the Tongass and give the U.S. Forest Service a chance to revise a logging plan after two years. But the bill, which the House twice has sent back to the conference, still has measures the administration opposes, said Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), Senate Interior Appropriations subcommittee chairman.
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