Chairman Hastings Follow-up Letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Regarding the SRS Program
Letters Mar 19, 2014
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Dear Secretary Vilsack: More than a month has passed since the Committee on Natural Resources ("Committee") sent a letter on February 14 requesting that the Department of Agriculture ("USDA") abandon any plans to withhold a portion of the FY 2013 Secure Rural Schools ("SRS") payments as a way to recover the FY 2012 SRS...
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Chairman Hastings Letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Regarding the SRS Program
Letters Feb 14, 2014
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Dear Secretary Vilsack: On January 14, 2013, the Committee on Natural Resources ("Committee") held an oversight hearing on the Obama Administration's decision to retroactively apply the FY 2013 sequester to FY 2012 payments made to states under the Secure Rural Schools ("SRS") program and the subsequent decision to dem...
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Chairmen Hastings and Lamborn Letter Seeking Input on Ways to Secure America’s Domestic Helium Supply
Letters Dec 5, 2013
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Dear Interested Helium Party, As you know, Congress has passed, and the President has signed H.R. 527, "The Helium Stewardship Act" (P.L. 113-40). This bi-partisan law will reform and close operations at Federal Helium Reserve over the remainder of this next decade. While this action was necessary to preserve the suppl...
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Hastings Letter to Secretary Jewell Regarding Unfulfilled Requests on the National Blueways Program
Letters Oct 25, 2013
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Dear Secretary Jewell: This letter follows up on prior communications, including June 28, 2013 and July 29, 2013 letters requesting 15 categories of documents and information, about the Department of the Interior's ("Department") Secretarial Order 3321 ("Order"). This Order established the "National Blueways System," a...
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